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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

L’Oreal, which is one of the largest providers of beauty and hair care products, sells millions of dollars of training to hair care specialists. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. Hundreds of other companies do the same.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. Learn.com; Plateau Learning – It seemed like a good idea Count Olaf. The challenge that befell Taleo, IMO, was that they were never in the learning business to begin with, they were in the recruiting software business.

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Meridian Knowledge Solutions Adds Learning Industry Veteran to Executive Team

Meridian

I look forward to leading the Meridian team to further advance the functional and technical capabilities of the software and provide our clients with a solution that greatly impacts their business objectives and advances their missions.” Meridian LMS is a product with remarkably deep learning features,” said Hung Vu. “I

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Help, I have an Instructional Design Master's Degree and I Can't Create E-Learning

Kapp Notes

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. Then download the software (free demo version) and build something that you will post on the web. Alternatively.

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Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS

Tony Karrer

See: " Supplier Savvy: Will Enterprise Software Companies Take Over E-Learning? " " Enterprise Software Redux ," In terms of "The Fall" his main point was that LMS will lose out to broader spectrum solutions - particularly Talent Management / Human Capital Management. His bottom line.

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Interview with PeakSpan Capital, A Growth Equity Firm

eLearning 24-7

For example, Calendly (leading provider of scheduling software) raised < $500K to reach $100M+ in ARR before whereas other companies may have raised $400M to reach the same revenue scale. In other words, let’s say you want to provide Vendor X with 5M, what is the usual percentage (that you find or aware of)?

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. Just as importantly, ledgers transparently track the movement of credits from party to party – in our case, from CE provider to certificant to certifying board.