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Kajabi Collects Massive $550M Round

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Irvine-based e-commerce software developer Kajabi said this morning that it has raised a massive, $550M funding round, which values the company at over $2 billion. The investment round firmly vaunts the company into unicorn territory. Kajabi's CEO and co-founder is Kenny Rueter.

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

TechCrunch LA

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

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Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. VC’s Want to Help! Yet they WANT to help.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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After lots of success himself, he basically says that most of the success you have in your life has to do with the people you come across in your life, who help you out. Jonathan Zweig: If you have a software development kit like we do, the challenge is getting past engineering hurdles to get our technology into another developer's app.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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Mark noted that even if an entrepreneur does not become a master developer, by simply understanding the software development process, they will be a more effective startup leader. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

But I strive to impact the lives of many more through hours of coaching entrepreneurs, challenging people to be better, making human connections for people or providing timely advice. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. Help a young person get their first job. If I need to be blunt I am.

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