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Demand Media Expands Into Online Learning, Buys Creativebug

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning it has expanded into the online learning market, and has acquired Creativebug , an online site which provides educational videos around art and carft instruction. Creativebug offers up its online courses via either subscription ($16.99 and up per course). READ MORE>>.

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6 Demands Of Today’s Me-Centric Customers On Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

A positive result of being a recognized category expert is that it gives you the credibility to broaden demand and start new trends, instead of waiting for outside influencers and other customers. Naturally, you then get the lion's share of that increase in demand. Customization – convince me it was made-for-me.

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How To Change The Course Of Your Business Gracefully

Startup Professionals Musings

In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. For all businesses, the art of the pivot is all about changing course as required in pursuit of the original business goal. Carpenter, Gary F.

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

TechCrunch LA

Entity uses all this to curate not just what courses it provides and what goes into the curriculum, but also how best to supplement that learning. Today, Entity courses also include targeted mentoring from people working in the tech industry, as well as career coaching en route to finding a job. .”

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Thinkful Offers Up Stipends For LA Technology Students

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The company explained that its program allows local students to take courses and learn in-demand skills, in exchange for 15 percent of a students' post-graduation salary over four years. The company--which also runs the program elsewhere in the nation--offers up a "engineering immersion" and other similar courses to students.

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QualityWorks Offers Up Free Bootcamp For BIPOC Community

socalTECH

According to QualityWorks, it is running a free, six-week Agile Testing Bootcamp aimed at helping individuals with non-technical backgrounds gain high-paying, high-demand technical jobs in software test.

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Four ways to create marketing excellence

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These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. The four Cs: Consumer, cost, communication and convenience. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. C=Customers, and more customers.

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