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The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education

TechCrunch

The ease with which like-minded professionals can receive training, coaching and participate in communities, largely thanks to improving and scalable digital offers, is a key part of the unbundling we are seeing. It’s positive, then, that the unbundling process is improving access to high-quality professional education and development.

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OpenClassrooms raises $80 million for its online education platform

TechCrunch

The company operates an online education platform in French and English. If you have a hard time finding a job, the company works with career coaches to make sure that you find a job that fits you. In France, people qualify for public subsidies in order to fund professional education programs.

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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

TechCrunch

The San Francisco startup connects anyone from first-time managers to C-suite executives with coaches through a marketplace. The new product is meant to serve as a hub and roadmap where a participant and coach can track insights, progress and behaviors. The co-founders see their long-term differentiation living in this feature.

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How the wow factor drives innovation at Northeast Grocery

CIO

To drive democratization, we follow ECTERS, which is educate, coach, train the trainer, empower, reinforce, and support, which helps nurture and embed internal AI talent. A key part is to educate. By enabling DIY IT, our teams can operate without the constraints of traditional workflows.

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Design and Run Experiments That Actually Progress Your Business

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Join Nick Noreña, educator, entrepreneur, and currently an Innovation Coach at Kromatic, as he walks us through how we can figure out the right experiments to run for any product or service, and in organizations of all sizes. That said, it's often quite tricky to take your vision and figure out the first experiment to run.

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Guild Education valued at $3.75 billion with newest round

TechCrunch

Guild Education, which pairs employees with employer-sponsored learning opportunities, has raised $150 million in a Series E round. Guild’s landing page for Walmart advertises the low-cost of school for working adults, emphasizing the company’s education benefit and possible impact it can have on career trajectory.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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