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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content.

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

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We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. Eric Robison: We're not going to spend it all right way, of course. We also want to expand and work on our web platform, as the scaling of the business requires us to scale that platform.

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What Lynda.com Plans To 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. Eric Robison: We're not going to spend it all right way, of course. We also want to expand and work on our web platform, as the scaling of the business requires us to scale that platform.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Is outside capital really required? Who should you approach, “friends and family”, passive investors or value added institutions?

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What we've managed to do, is to use our background in web hosting--my partners and I have been building web hosting companies for years in the app hosting space--to run EdgeCast, in a way that is capital efficient, profitable, and highly performant. Really, it's just another source of capital.

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Founders Fund and Peter Thiel Inject $28M into Asana

Tech Zulu Event

Moskovitz said,”We plan to use the capital primarily to grow our team: hiring the world’s best designers, engineers, and other contributors is by far the most important thing we do”. Asana is proud to have him on their board to join Andreessen-Horowitz, and Mitch Kapor and other existing investors and invaluable advisors.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

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Students have to register with their matriculation numbers, and supply upon registration, their course of study, faculty, department, mode of entry, year of entry etc. We recognised her of course with her stunning profile picture. Students will create a social circle that mimics their social activities in school.