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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year.

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What Lynda.com Plans With Its $103M Funding, with Eric Robison

socalTECH

We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. We've also got a facility in Calabasas which we're just finishing renovating. We also have sales offices in the UK and in Australia. How many employees do you have now at the company?

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