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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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

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Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. He isn’t setting out to do it over night but with the ambition to make a difference in the world Ryan falls into the rare category of entrepreneur looking to tackle something truly monumental. T vs. Mr. Rogers [this last one NSFW].

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. You're probably making a lot of these errors too.

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