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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

socalTECH

According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content. 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.

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

socalTECH

To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally.

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

socalTECH

To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally.

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Founders Fund and Peter Thiel Inject $28M into Asana

Tech Zulu Event

This morning Dustin Moskovitz announced that Asana had got a $28 million investment from Peter Thiel and Founders Fund. Moskovitz said they have admired and respected Founders Fund and loved their commitment to building teams to improve lives. Welcoming Thiel to their Board of Directors.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Of course, there's still hard work to be done to as the bad news is that its hard finding good Web Development in Los Angeles and certainly its tough Finding Developers Here in Los Angeles.

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

Tech Zulu Event

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing.

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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. Of course the debates raged about not wanting to make the system less powerful. I was 31 and they were in their 20′s. My mantra back then was “what would your mom be able to use?&# Simplify, simplify, simplify.

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