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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. everything.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

socalTECH

Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more.

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ The Kauffman Foundation centers their work around programs for entrepreneurs and educational programs aimed at students from pre-kindergarten through college.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

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15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. My brother is in charge of the development team, and is very focused on development and coding.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.