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Udacity Achieves 50,000 Nanodegree Grads Amid Company Reorganization

Xconomy

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Degreed Raises $75M to Expand in Growing Workforce Training Sector

Xconomy

Among Degreed’s goals is to help businesses keep up with technological change by offering workers easy access to online courses and other materials that can fill knowledge gaps or add new areas of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

socalTECH

IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now. Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team. It's just exploding.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. Which of course it won’t, right? ” “Of course you can.”

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