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Grindr Seeks Sale, Says Report

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Los Angeles-based gay dating app and website developer Grindr is looking for a buyer, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg said that Grindr has hired investment banker Raine Group to advise the company on a sale. Grindr was founded by Joel Simkhai. READ MORE>>.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. The business saw a dramatic growth when--due to the downturn of the dot com crash--the company started to post its video online.

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RescueTime Seeks To Introduce Great People To Great Companies

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RescueTime , the makers of a web-based time management tool, has come up with another service aimed to help companies find potential new employees. Touted as the “CarFax report for potential new employees&# , RescueTime Introductions promises not to find a candidate that is 100% perfect for a position.

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Founders Fund and Peter Thiel Inject $28M into Asana

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According to reports Asana is now valued at $280 million after the $28M investment. Asana is the most interesting re-imagination of collaboration since email itself, and Founders Fund is excited to be a part of the company as they radically overhaul the way teams work together. Asana also saves on time wasted in meetings.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

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► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ▼ September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” ” Maybe people could shorten that to “Web Second” as a reminder to not give up on the power of the tethered web.

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Vincent Borel Co-Founder of Webdoc

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I can share a link, a video, or a photo album but there is no way to freely mix different types of web content and share them. Think Minority Report meets the web. We really have an amazing team of developers and designers with over 6 nationalities. How did your company get its initial funding? Are you Funded?

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