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TradeYa Gets $1.1M

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in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. The funding came from angel investors, including Chris Hameetman (Tech Coast Angels) and Joe Addiego (Alsop Louie Partners). Santa Monica-based TradeYa said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1M The startup is led by Jared Krause. READ MORE>>.

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Famous Birthdays Focuses On Finding Celebrity Facts

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The startup--the brainchild of Evan Britton--has been ramping up its efforts recently, having just launched a brand new responsive web design which optimizes the site for mobile phones and tablets, in addition to desktop web browsers. The design just went live in the last couple of weeks. READ MORE>>.

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CrownPeak Raises $1.75M in Series C

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Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of web content management systems (CMS), has raised $1.75M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

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Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. READ MORE>>.

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Lynda.com Snags New Enterprise GM From Salesforce.com

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Lynda.com just raised a bibg, $186M funding round led by TPG earlier this month, and has been gobbling up other, online learning companies. Lynda.com offers up a wide range of online, video-based courses on a wide range of IT topics, ranging from graphics and design software to web design, business, and other skills.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

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Filed under: Accelerator , Blogging , Branding , Design Agency , Digital Strategy , Entrepreneurs , Founders , Responsive Design , Seed Funding , Startup , User Experience , Venture Capital , Web Design Tagged: Amplify , Eric Garcetti , Greenberg Glusker , NextSpace , Social media marketing , Sony Interactive , Staples Center.

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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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