Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: More than 1 in 6 students in the USA do not have a baseline level of financial literacy. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. What is your app all about? How did this start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. The good news is there's a better way -- and it can usually be accomplished with the same amount of time and resources as a "stand and deliver" training.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based Amavitae is hoping its mobile app will help advance your career. The startup, which launched earlier this month, said it has created an app which helps provide pathways to the education and training you need for the job you want. The startup is led by founder and CEO Deborah Ramo.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Enrou (www.enrou.co) thinks it has a way--by connecting people with products that also help support international development and causes, via its own online marketplace. I had worked along with some of these organization son the ground, who were employing people, providing microfinancing, education, and help.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

But underlying all that, in a sense, is education. We have long run stories about STEM education, educational technology, and more—and even put out a special Xconomist report on the future of education. Now we are bringing that coverage even more front and center with the launch of a national Education channel.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educational technology is one field worth examining, even though education hasn’t been a front-burner issue in the final months of the campaign. Both Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump say they’d spend billions on educational reforms, and while their visions diverge, they have some points in common.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2013

Lynda.com , the online training and learning service, is looking to ramp up awareness of its service with some television advertising, it appears. Lynda.com recenlty took a big, $103M funding round , and has been expanding in the face of a big growth in the online learning and training services industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. It helps you figure out what you can do in a business, what roles are available, what might be my future here.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In an effort to help small businesses improve their cybersecurity, Los Angeles-based NINJIO , a startup offering up cybersecurity awareness training, says it has released a new library of Hollywood-style, animated "micro-learning" videos, which help businesses train their employees on cybersecurity topics.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2017

a Bay Area company focused on virtual and augmented reality training and coworking, said on Thursday that it plans on opening up a new Los Angeles area education and coworking space, specifically focused on the VR and AR community. Upload Inc. , The company said its new site, based in Marina Del Rey, will open on April 13th.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

They are genuinely creating these podcasts to educate and inspire people who love building products as much as they do. They focus on a specific market and over deliver quality education. FoundersCard staff are always quick to return my emails or look into resources that help make my everyday living easier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials? Can you define measurable milestones to help you track progress and provide feedback? Do you have dependents that must be factored into every career and lifestyle equation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. Sometimes it’s helpful to imagine contradictory approaches, or working with opposites. Maybe that’s why “thinking outside the box” is so rare.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The proposal sets out four big initiatives, including zero-emissions vehicle manufacturing, assembly and adoption; zero-emissions infrastructure investments; commitments to public transit investments; workforce development; and job training. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 1, 2019

Instead of coming to the community with a solution, engage the community to help ideate and problem solve together. Employee engagement and education. Helping existing community members train for the kinds of jobs your company offers will allow locals to bridge the income gap so central to the destruction of existing communities.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2012

Ojai, California-based Lynda.com , the online education site providing online training on a variety of software, ranging from PhotoShop to AutoCAD and much more which was founded by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, is now topping $70M in annual revenues, according to reports.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kulhan is a professor at the Duke University School of Business, but was trained in improvisation by some comedy greats, including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Team members can’t help you change if they don’t clearly understand where they need to go and how to get there. Improvisation does require training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This requires people on your team who have real-world experience, as well as design training. Others include the marketing awareness and education stage, online and in-store shopping stage, setup stage, support, and upgrade considerations. The objective is to build a sustainable relationship between the product and customer.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2019

The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business is hoping to make its MBA students more attractive to the marketplace--and help its international students--by adding a new "STEM specialization" option for its full time MBA students, the company announced on Wednesday.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Ultimately, it will help them find a career, and help the world. I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare. Restaurants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Finding an idea. Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. < Business plan creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, the first requirement is to get the education and tools you need to feel confident that you are ready, and have the mindset to be a leader in every role. As satisfying as it is to feel you are helping others at your level or below, you will learn more from people with more role expertise and management experience.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

He observed that the process we follow to be humane in our handling of under-performing employees, manage the risk of future lawsuit, finally then move to separate the employee, define the open position, recruit the candidate, train the new hire and count the new hire as up to speed in the job can take all of eighteen months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. In Sweden, citizens and entrepreneurs gladly pay taxes because of all the personal and social benefits those taxes produce.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

with a variety of support, training, and certification options for VARs and others. As part of that partner program, it said it has signed Logical Choice Technologies, a national provider of educational technology solutions, to help it reach schools, colleges, and universities with its product.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Plus, the firm is developing other apps like Strobe Tuner (guitar, brass, drum, other tuning), and Sonata (sheet music), all tools to help bring music to the future. It takes years of training and practice to make music: or does it? Music Mastermind. The firm has the backing of both Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Music Prodigy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This requires people on your team who have real-world experience, as well as design training. Others include the marketing awareness and education stage, online and in-store shopping stage, setup stage, support, and upgrade considerations. The objective is to build a sustainable relationship between the product and customer.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

But deeply divided politicians may still find some common ground over education policy—in ways that could be good for educational technology companies and other inventive startups, says the CEO of a richly-endowed non-profit that’s trying to catalyze change. students and adults prepare for success in the 21st century.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. The program helps them learn the tools to become angel investors in female led enterprises.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials? Can you define measurable milestones to help you track progress and provide feedback? Do you have dependents that must be factored into every career and lifestyle equation?

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 3, 2016

Turns out also, AYSO has much better processes and education than I had expected. The administration that runs the league however is awesome, always friendly and helpful. I asked my division leader if there was a training for this. To be honest, the guy was a putz. Maybe too much on his plate. I will do it again next year.

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