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Lynda.com Snags New Enterprise GM From Salesforce.com

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Nierenberg had most recently been at Salesforce.com,where he had been in product management; he also was former VP of Business Development and Strategy for Chatter, and also served at The Bridgespan Group. The company is one of several, Central Coast companies who are rumored to be eyeing the public markets and a potential IPO. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction. Besides capable entrepreneurs who have a similar drive and passion that the partners extol, Jeff looks for businesses that can scale.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. more) READ MORE>>.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. I’ve also talked about my favorite social entrepreneur, Charles Best, making a difference with Donor’s Choose – a program to increase donations to US public schools specifically allocated to supplies or projects you want to fund.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. Thanks for the time!

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7