Online Education returning profits - lynda.com
Posted On
- Saturday, May 05, 2012
lynda.com is a website for providing smart education, teaching lessons through creative and instructive videos. But who thought that a company doing so can go this far, and that too without any investors help. Run by
Bruce Heavin and
Lynda Weinman, this has jumped out of the crowd as the new face for software training through videos. We also have a number of other such websites like the very own
Khan Academy by an indian guy named Salman Khan (don't get confused by the name, there are many Salman khans).
So here is an introduction to the plot, lynda.com is a 90's startup, providing videos by industry experts for training and skill development for various softwares like Adobe, Microsoft etc.
Go for it read about the nothing to something story of lynda.com which soared to $70 million revenue in its 17 years of existence without any investor.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/03/lynda-70m/
Courtesy :
TechCrunch
