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An Unlikely Unicorn: Lynda.com’s Journey From Garage To $1.3B Sale

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Like a true entrepreneur, even though she was young, she took control of her life and pursued an alternative education. Bruce also experienced a challenging time at school, struggling with the limitations of a 1970’s public school education which emphasized conformity over creativity. [3:27] Self Taught Is Well Taught.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. Desire for FanMix came from our experience building SocialEngine. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. Bootstrapping is a very isolated experience. We have some great mentors now.

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Stacksocial | Bringing Forth the Next Logical Step in Purchasing Software

Tech Zulu Event

Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more. In addition to all of that, Stacksocial helps people discover their inner geek by offerings educational courses too. The courses include, app building, web development, Online Entrepreneurship and much more.

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Interview: Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com

InfoChachkie

8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child.

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Interview: Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com

InfoChachkie

8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. I know all of this from first hand experience. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home&#. Crazy, huh?

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How This Entrepreneur Went From Poverty To CEO Of A Dead Sexy Startup

InfoChachkie

Although he was excelling as a web designer, Don began to get the itch to start his own business. However, in retrospect, he admits that he lacked the requisite experience and self-awareness. "So So now at this point, I''ve got ten years of business experience, so I have a little bit of a swagger, I think that I know everything.

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