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What Should We Make of Peter Thiel’s “20 Under 20? Education Program?

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We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. The value of a college education. I am very passionate and on record about the value of education. Education is self discovery.

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Vantage Media Launches Into Educational Marketplace

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El Segundo-based Vantage Media , the provider of performance-based marketing and advertising services, is expanding into the post-secondary school marketplace today, saying that it has launched a new offering called Vantage Media SchoolSelect. Vantage Media is also behind insurance marketplace BrokersWeb, which it acquired in November.

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Quincy Jones' New Playground Sessions Targets Music Education

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Jones--who lives in Bel Air--is behind Playground Sessions , which is hoping to make music education available to anyone willing to sign up for a monthly membership. Jones'' new startup is among a large number of music-related, Southern California-linked technology and online startups, and not the first in the music education area.

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Interview with Aviv Grill, Miso Media

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Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. He showed me the prototype, we flushed it out, and figured out what Miso Media could really end up being.

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Vantage Media Sells Unit To Campus Explorer

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Los Angeles-based Vantage Media said Thursday that it is selling its Education Services Business--which sells leads to education advertisers--to Campus Explorer , as it looks to sharpen its focus on the technology behind its real time bidding (RTB) advertising platform. Financial terms of the sale were not announced.

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Demand Media Expands Into Online Learning, Buys Creativebug

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning it has expanded into the online learning market, and has acquired Creativebug , an online site which provides educational videos around art and carft instruction. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm was based in San Francisco. a month) or a la carte ($9.99

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Miso Media Gets $600K

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Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of music education software, said Friday that it has raised a $600,000 round of seed financing. Miso Media provides technology to help users learn the guitar and ukelele. The round came from Google Ventures, Keith Rabois, Laura Ziskin, and other un-named seed investors.

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