Today at Udemy we are excited to announce a new partnership with Jack Welch as we launch a brand-new course in management training called Leadership in Action. The course, personally designed by Mr. Welch himself, is part of the Welch Way program in collaboration with the Jack Welch Management Institute and Strayer University. Welch Way is a new, flexible, and modular program designed for both corporations and individuals looking to learn new leadership skills especially for the workplace. The interactive…
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Hi guys, The Lean Startup Book by Eric Ries launches in just under a week. To celebrate Eric, Udemy, and other Lean Startups are throwing a massive promotion in the next 2 days with over $3,000,000 in prizes for buying multiple copies of the book for you and your friends! Udemy  is donating one copy of Eric’s Lean Startup course  on Udemy, along with his SXSW and IGNITE talks  for free for every copy of the book that is purchased!…
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It’s happening again! Venture Capital is blowing up like it’s 1999. Thousands of angels are investing in companies and seed funds are popping up like Oompa Loompas at the chocolate factory. You may raise money one day, but how are you going to do it? How will you get meetings with investors and convince them to give you their cash? To solve this problem, Naval Ravikant, Dave McClure, and others have created an online course called “Raising Capital for Startups”….
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Interns can be a game-changer for startups. You’re cash-strapped and resource-constrained, and yet you have more things to do than you can imagine. There are hundreds of thousands of hungry, smart, young college students who are just looking for work experience and something to put on your resume. It’s a win-win. They get real work experience and spend their summer doing something better than mowing lawns. You spend little-to-no capital and get extra hands to help you with product development,…
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Udemy is extremely proud to announce that we received the Award for Best in Class for our “Learning Platform” at the 2011 Education Summit recently held at Arizona State University.  The Education Summit brings together the most innovative stakeholders in education including public entities, non-profits and for-profits of all types and sizes.  The speakers were awesome; the people were fantastic; and, we are incredibly excited to be a part of the education revolution.

In anticipation of SXSW, the webapp deal site AppSumo is running a special Lean Startup Bundle through next weekend. What is a lean startup bundle? In short, it’s the proverbial startup-in-a-box for the ambitious bootstrapper. This bundle is so comprehensive, Yuri Milner is rumored to have made an offer. It has everything you need to build, scale, manage, optimize, promote, fail, pivot, rinse, and repeat until your heart’s content. In addition to the >$5000 worth of products and services in the…
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Udemy continues its interviews with Udemy’s online instructors.  In this installment Udemy goes international to meet Deivid Colkevicius of England.  Deivid teaches the very popular free course Photoshop Basics.

Udemy is proud to continue its interviews with Udemy’s online instructors.  In this third installment we meet Jim Pruett.  Jim teaches the popular course Write and Publish an app for your Android Smartphone. He can also be found on his website and on Twitter.  In this interview, Jim talks about developing for the mobile applications market and future trends in mobile and education.

Udemy is proud to introduce its newest series of interviews with online instructors. Today we have Angela Poch.  Ms. Poch teaches The Online Vegan Vegetarian Cooking School on Udemy and can also be found on her website.  In this interview, Ms. Poch discusses teaching a cooking course online and her motivation behind her course.

In an interview with Udemy, Professor Allan Collins stated that “the biggest obstacle is for society to recognize that technology is going to have its major impact on education outside of school.” Technology, he noted, often exacerbates already existing inequality in society.  Thus, society, in our rush to incorporate technology to revolutionize the educational system, must be careful not to neglect those that lack access to it.  This is a valid concern, but efforts to make education accessible online, especially…
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