The site was so successful without outside capital that it didn’t really make sense to accept it. But today, lynda.com is a 400 person company with plans to expand its content and platform (Weinman won’t say more than that just yet). It can use the funding. By Ariel Schwartz (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) If you’ve [...]
Posts Tagged "Lynda Weinman"
The Women 2.0 Conference Rocked My World
February 21, 2013 – 7:00 am
Exchanging information, celebrating each other’s successes, the act of learning as a group – all this collective experience feels like a powerful counteraction to the plain-as-day fact that startup culture is not exactly women-friendly. By Angelina Strosahl (Co-Founder, DonationPay) I was lucky enough to attend the Women 2.0 “The Next Billion” Conference last Thursday and [...]
Women 2.0: My Best Valentine’s Day In Silicon Valley!
February 19, 2013 – 6:00 am
Entrepreneur Thuy Truong flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to officially release her Smartboard app on Valentine’s Day and pitch her company at the Women 2.0 Conference in front of a thousand people! By Thuy Truong (Co-Founder & CEO, Greengar) I learned more about entrepreneurship in the last two weeks than I have my [...]
lynda.com Co-Founder Lynda Weinman Talks About Disrupting Education At Women 2.0 Conference 2013
February 14, 2013 – 6:57 pm
Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After 18 years of bootstrapping, lynda.com took $103 million in a single round of funding. CEO Lynda Weinman took the stage for the closing keynote at the 2013 [...]
(Infographic) Women 2.0 Conference 2013 In Pictures & Quotes
January 30, 2013 – 6:00 am
On February 14, 2013 – join hundreds of like-minded entrepreneurial individuals who aim to build high-tech and high-growth ventures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Learn from dozens of successful women entrepreneurs, startup executives and early-stage investors at the Women 2.0 Conference in San Francisco for a full-day of inspiration, education, connection and [...]
Lynda Weinman, Co-Founder Of lynda.com, To Deliver Closing Keynote At Women 2.0 Conference On February 14
January 22, 2013 – 12:30 pm
Female founder of lynda.com to speak at Women 2.0 Conference. lynda.com earned $100M+ revenue in 2012, and closed $103M outside funding last week for expansion. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Just a week after celebrating the good news of the edutech company raising $103 million in outside funding, Women 2.0 is excited [...]
Co-Founder Lynda Weinman Raises $103 Million Venture Capital For Eponymous Online Learning Platform lynda.com
January 20, 2013 – 10:00 am
The female-founded edutech company receives a huge first round of outside funding, with big plans for expansion. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Co-founded by Lynda Weinman in 1995 and profitable since 1997, online learning platform lynda.com has big plans to scale and grow internationally with its first round of outside funding – [...]
Female Founders To Watch: This Week’s Successful Fund-Raisers
July 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
We celebrated a flurry of venture funding announcements for women-founded startups this week. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We celebrate women securing investment for business ventures because raising a round of venture capital is a public, measurable milestone for a startup. When an early-stage company receives investment, either VC or angel, we [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Literally Married To Your Co-Founder
May 4, 2012 – 9:54 am
From tech giants Cisco and VMware to startups ModCloth and Lynda, married co-founders are everywhere. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We often joke about our “work husbands” and “work wives” but realized this week that we know a flurry of married startup co-founders. Both Founder Friday hosts (Julia Hartz of Eventbrite and [...]
How Lynda Hit $70M In Revenue Without A Penny From Investors
May 4, 2012 – 5:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Rip Empson (Writer, TechCrunch) As Ned Flanders would say, education in the U.S. is in “a dilly of a pickle.” At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the cost of education has become unsustainable. Student loan debt is over $1 trillion, unemployment remains high for [...]
