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Lynda.com Hires New CFO

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Carpinteria-based Lynda.com , the online video education site, looks to be continuing its growth trajectory, and has hired a new CFO. The company said it has named Elaine Kitagawa as Chief Financial Officer, after recently hiring former PopCap CTO Frits Habermann as its new Chief Technology Officer.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

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Recipe Suggestions for Culinary Sites For culinary platforms or recipe websites, user searches can be incredibly varied, given the diverse range of ingredients and dietary preferences. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on.

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IVT Names New CEO

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McGovern replaces founder Greg Pulier, who is now CTO of the firm. McGovern was most recently CEO of itzbig, an online interactive job board site, and has also served as CEO of Marketwire. IVT's services are used for webcasting investment conferences, training sessions, and other corporate events. IVT recently landed $5.5M

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Open Source Business Model

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Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. Is FanMix available now?

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. That's great training for the startup world. This has been very appealing to the top tier filmmakers, who have A-list and B-list talent.

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