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Italian startup Passpack is an online password manager. A web application to securely store your passwords.
With the release of Passpack 7 they introduced a lot of new cool features such as automatic saving, search, tags & filter. But the most important has surely been secure password sharing: you can now send your passwords to other passpack users without having to email or IM them.
A few days ago another great feature was released: bulk actions. You can now delete or share multiple entries with one click, awesome. But not enough..

At TechGarage I met Francesco Sullo, the founder of Passpack and he gave me a scoop: get ready for Minipacks.
As of now you can share passwords only with passpack users, so if they are not registered you actually have to call, email, IM them and get them to sign up. But what if someone is using other softwares?
With this release (due in one week approximately) you will be able to send out minipacks, completely secure and encrypted files containing your passwords, if the person you are sending the minipack to is not registered on passpack he will be able to import the file in any software after having inserted a password (you will have to call or email for this).
I think this is such a huge feature, it definitely needed a post. Can’t wait to see it live.

Here is a video if you’ve never heard of passpack

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Every major job portal out there is focused on the big companies and aspiring entrepreneurs are left alone in the difficult job search. While everyone agrees that to gain experience as an entrepreneur the only way is to actually start your company or work in a startup and try to grab the most out of the experience, no one helps students in this difficult search.

Now recent graduates have a easy way of finding internships in startups and small businesses: Enternships.
The site was started by Rajeeb Dey, a 23 years old graduate from the University of Oxford. Being president of The Oxford Entrepreneurs student society Dey is very informed about students’ needs and is also very connected with the UK startup scene.

“If you want to be a lawyer, accountant or banker you can do internships in the summer of your penultimate year but if you want to be an entrepreneur, other than setting up your own venture the best way to learn is to work in a start-up / small firm. In the current economic climate in particular there are fewer jobs available in big corporations so it’s about time we shifted our attention to the ‘long tail’ of the recruitment industry and looked at the millions of small but exciting firms out there.” Dey said.

The premise of the new site is very simple, employers sign up and post placements and potential enterns upload their CVs and apply for them. Employers are then able to manage the entire recruitment process, from posting a vacancy to filtering, interviewing and selecting candidates, via the website.

There are already plenty of listings from a lot of the major european startups such as Huddle, MyDeco and Wakoopa. The team is now working on expanding their radius to India and USA.

“One of the greatest luxuries of being a student is having the time to think about ideas. One of the best things about being in a start-up is that it is all about ideas. An Enternship will give you a great opportunity experience life in an entrepreneurial environment.” Says Martha Lane Fox, Co-Founder of Lastminute.com and CEO of Lucky Voice, who is supporting Enternships and providing great positions in some of their ventures.

If you are a student looking for some entrepreneurial experience, this will surely be helpful.

Wellington Partners invested €8 Millions in München-based Experteer, the leading european career services website listing jobs with a minimun salary of €60k.

Experteer CEO Christian Göttsch explains: “Experteer is an unrivaled career service for professionals and executives throughout Europe. What we offer includes clear added value in connection with professional and executive positions, discreet contact with executive search consultants and the Experteer Career Matching technology. Thanks to the new round of financing, we will now be able to further expand our leading role in this fast-growing market.”

The company was founded in 2006, it now covers 8 countries, 4.800 companies and lists more than 50.000 job offers. The investment, part of the Wellington Partners Ventures III Fund is expected to broaden Experteer’s international expansion.

Wellington General Partner Eric Archambeau notes: “Since our first investment in March 2007, the Experteer management team has impressed us with the way it smoothly and swiftly instituted its ambitious business plan. Within the space of only a few quarters, they have succeeded in convincing more than 850,000 members as well as over 4,800 headhunters. We are highly confident that they will now take their story to next stage and expand their market leadership in Europe and beyond.”

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