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WeWork Gets Smart With Education for Adults and Kids

Tech.Co

And now, they’ve decided to pay it forward with a few education initiatives that could really make a difference. The coworking company has announced two meaningful education initiatives that could help people get a leg up in the tech community. Kids don’t get to enjoy all the educational fun at WeWork though.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs). Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines.

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Balance Your Marketing Spending Between Free and Fee

Startup Professionals Musings

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

Both Sides of the Table

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. See this article talking about previous class action lawsuits. I hope you’re OK with that.

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

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous. Both Bruce and Lynda were both self-educated technologists. In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5

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Startup Spotlight: Final Exams, Santa Chatbot and Clean Up Your Email

Tech.Co

ChatbotsBuilder is an online platform for easily building complete, effective and advanced autonomous chatbots for Facebook Messenger. Tutors are available for k-12 and college in a variety of topics and specialty areas including: English, math, foreign language, writing, physics, even special education. ChatbotsBuilder (Boston, MA).

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