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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Review the code being built. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

socalTECH

Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. The business saw a dramatic growth when--due to the downturn of the dot com crash--the company started to post its video online.

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How Dealstruck Is Using Crowdfunding To Power Loans For Small Businesses

socalTECH

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. Why did you decide to focus on debt, not equity? How''d you come up with the idea for the site? We have real people here.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

socalTECH

We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. We saw early on that the cloud as we know it today--utility services, software, and so on--was an entry point to do that, including with hosting. So, for us, competition is good.

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lynda.com Gets Award For Electric Vehicle Efforts

socalTECH

Carpinteria-based Lynda.com , which offers up an online learning and education site, has been awarded by the Department of Energy for its sustainability initiatives around plug in vehicles, the company said this week. lynda.com is venture backed by Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. Ghost itself closed on a Series A equity round of $13 million, along with $7 million in debt, in June. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software.

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Hiring MBA’s by the Hour | Inventing Work 2.0 with Skillbridge

Tech Zulu Event

Due Diligence. “Other platforms and freelancing sites lose the transparency aspect. To date, SkillBridge has grown quickly with over 300 projects under its belt, and more coming in at a steady pace – all in 9-10 months of a baseline MVP launch, and a major site redesign in February. Marketing & Branding.