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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com said today that it has raised a big growth round from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity, and also reported that the firm exceeded $100M in topline revenues last year. According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content. READ MORE>>.

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Founders Fund and Peter Thiel Inject $28M into Asana

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This morning Dustin Moskovitz announced that Asana had got a $28 million investment from Peter Thiel and Founders Fund. Moskovitz said they have admired and respected Founders Fund and loved their commitment to building teams to improve lives. According to reports Asana is now valued at $280 million after the $28M investment.

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Vincent Borel Co-Founder of Webdoc

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I can share a link, a video, or a photo album but there is no way to freely mix different types of web content and share them. Think Minority Report meets the web. We really have an amazing team of developers and designers with over 6 nationalities. Are you Funded? How did your company get its initial funding?

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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

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funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. What will the funding be used for? in, and we are happy to report that we're seeing some good growth, and that our investors are happy.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Lookup their hosting services, find the report-abuse form, and submit your complaints. Most of these apps make use of the Twitter-API, there are many spam report forms you can creatively use to ruin their reputation at Twitter. I have personally reported ThingFetcher to Rackspace twice, by the way. It’s the fucking worst.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Otherwise, we would likely have failed like most other website development companies did at the time. Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Our competition was well funded with many millions of dollars, well armed with hundreds of employees and far down the path.

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