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USC, New York Times Partner On Online Education Courses

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The University of Southern California and the New York Times said this week that the two are partnering to provide online, continuing education courses this fall, across seven different study areas. The NYTimes has been running its educational efforts since September of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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Lynda.com Gets Award For Job Creation

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The company said it filled nearly 200 jobs from 2008 to 2011, tops in the Education industry. Lynda.com's online site offers up instructional courses on everything from software like Photoshop to Wordpress, and Excel to AutoCAD. Lynda.com said the award will appears in Inc's December/January issue.

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Patent Reform Act

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Patent Reform Act. Never more than this year with the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011 (formerly known as the Patent Reform Act of 2011). The world of patent law is constantly changing. Some of the changes will be seen sooner and a few have already been applied.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, So What Does All This Mean?

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DriveCam Names New Board Member

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Interestingly, DriveCam noted that Darcy headed up McAfee''s audit committee from 2008 until the company''s sale to Intel in February of 2011, and that Darcy co-authored PwC''s "Taking Your Company Public" handbook and its first course on initial public offerings. READ MORE>>.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

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Of course, if you are developing native mobile apps or building something on top of a particular code base or you need to integrate tightly with something, all of those factors may push you directly towards a particular language and framework. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone. This may push you in that direction.

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