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An Unlikely Unicorn: Lynda.com’s Journey From Garage To $1.3B Sale

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In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5 For those who don’t have the time to listen to our entire talk, I’ve highlighted several key takeaways below, along with the corresponding video timestamp, to facilitate quick access to issues of interest to entrepreneurs. Both Bruce and Lynda were both self-educated technologists.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Adopt A “Whatever It Takes” Mentality.

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. No one else is doing that now in podcasting. We have five more shows coming on the luxury side.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur?

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

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Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. The writing on this show is some of the best writing in modern American comedic shows.

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