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What Lynda.com Plans With Its $103M Funding, with Eric Robison

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To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless.