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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 Like a true entrepreneur, even though she was young, she took control of her life and pursued an alternative education. Bruce also experienced a challenging time at school, struggling with the limitations of a 1970’s public school education which emphasized conformity over creativity. [3:27]

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

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We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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5 Companies Millennials Avoid – And What It Means For Your Brand

Inverted Software

Millennials are more educated about healthy choices, are price sensitive and environmentally friendly. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? sales falling 3.9 Overall, the company’s ecommerce sales totaled $2.01 Applebee’s.

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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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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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In fact, they led the way for the state’s GDP growth of 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was the highest in the nation , according to the U.S. Indiana’s institutes of higher education have become centers of entrepreneurship, supporting their faculty, staff, and students.

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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. We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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I think we're seeing our growth finally is starting to be exponential, while back in 2015 and 2016 we found we needed to have some patience. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets. Plus, we're really ramping up our client success team and sales team to meet the demand in the U.S.

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