实习与求职平台LookSharp收购Readyforce
LookSharp现已收购了Readyforce，这笔交易的财务条款目前不详。LookSharp是一家提供求职信息的创业公司，旗下运作有InternMatch平台；Readyforce则是一个针对大学生和应届毕业生的专业网络。
自2010年创立以来，Readyforce已经筹集到超过1200万美元的资金，投资方包括Menlo Ventures、First Round Capital和U.S. Ventures。LookSharp的公司名称之前就是InternMatch，后来才开始为雇主和学生推出更多的服务。到目前为止，该公司的融资总额为780万美元，投资方包括ARTIS Ventures、Rudy Gadre、500 Startups、Kapor Capital、Subtraction Capital和Vishal Makhijani等公司。
LookSharp表示，这次收购将会用来充实它的实习、初级职位和内容数据库，以便更好地帮助学生们找到第一份工作。
两家公司合并后还将有利于双方在一个碎片化市场更好地竞争。LookSharp面临着众多竞争者，比如CareerBuilder、Monster、Dice和Indeed，该公司的差异化经营方式就是：让雇主在工作、福利和公司文化方面提供更多的信息，以便找到最好的潜在求职者，而不是被数以百计的工作申请所淹没。与LookSharp合作的企业既有众多创业公司，也有Facebook、亚马逊、嘉信理财（Charles Schwab）、迪斯尼和波音这样的知名企业集团。
另一方面，Readyforce主要针对计算机科学和工程专业的学生提供服务。今年9月份，该公司推出了一个称为“探寻你的选择”（Explore Your Options）的工具，有了这个工具，已有录用通知的学生们在接受这份工作之前，还有机会看一看其他的工作机会。
LookSharp表示，自2011年创立以来，该公司每年用户增长速度都超过500%，现在其平台上有3万个雇主和1000万名学生。
LookSharp, An Internship And Job Listings Platform, Acquires Readyforce
LookSharp, a startup that offers job listings and operates InternMatch, has acquired Readyforce, a professional network for college students and new graduates. The deal’s financial terms were undisclosed.
Since launching in 2010, Readyforce has raised more than $12 million in funding from investors including Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital and U.S. Ventures. LookSharp, which was formerly known as just InternMatch before it began to roll out more services for employers and students, has raised a total of $7.8 million from ARTIS Ventures, Rudy Gadre, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Subtraction Capital and Vishal Makhijani.
LookSharp says the acquisition will allow it to grow its database of internships, entry-level positions, and content geared toward helping students looking for their first jobs.
Combining forces will also help the two companies better compete in a fragmented marketplace. LookSharp seeks to differentiate from rivals like CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice and Indeed by allowing employers to offer more information about their jobs, benefits and company culture, in hopes of finding the best prospective candidates instead of getting flooded with hundreds of applications. Companies that list on LookSharp include startups, as well as corporations including Facebook, Amazon, Charles Schwab, Disney and Boeing.
Readyforce, on the other hand, focuses mainly on computer science and engineering students. In September, the company launched a tool called “Explore Your Options,” which lets students who have already received offers see what other opportunities are out there before accepting a job.
Since launching in 2011, LookSharp says it has grown more than 500 percent year-over-year and now has 30,000 employers and 10 million students on its platform.
来源：techcrunch
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培训即服务创业公司Lesson.ly融资110万美元，2014年营收增长850%
提供上岗培训管理和培训工具的创业公司 Lesson.ly 在今天早晨宣布，已获得 110 万美元投资。此轮融资由 Allos Ventures 领投，数位天使投资人参投。Lesson.ly 是首个接受“ExactTarget 三位联合创始人作为投资人”的公司。ExactTarget 是一家与 Lesson.ly 类似的美国中西部公司，于 2013 年被 Salesforce 收购。
Lesson.ly 在 2013 年获得过一小笔种子融资。该公司拒绝透露先前一笔融资的具体金额。不过却表示最近一笔融资获得了超额认购，其最初计划融资 100 万美元，最终却多获得了 10% 的资金。
Lesson.ly 计划利用这笔资金来增加营销开支，扩展产品和扩充团队人数到正常水平。
TechCrunch 上一次报道 Lesson.ly 还是在 2013 年底，当时 Lesson.ly 只有三名员工，每月的营收增速达 245% 。考虑到当时这家公司成立还不久，相对比例没什么意义。现在 Lesson.ly 拥有 10 名员工，预计到年底员工数将达 12 名，并计划在 2015 年让员工数翻番。
Lesson.ly 的创始人兼首席执行官马克思·尤德(Max Yoder)表示，Lesson.ly 今年的营收增长了 850% 。他预计 Lesson.ly 2015 年的营收将增长 300% 。
尤德向 TechCrunch 表示，Stripe 和 Lyft 都是 Lesson.ly 的客户。我问尤德，Lesson.ly 是不是严重依赖于某一个客户，得到的答复是没有一个客户对营收的贡献超过 10% 。
作为一家热切希望向硅谷客户销售的非硅谷公司，Lesson.ly 很出众。我问尤德，中西部创业环境近况如何。他提到了不少退出案，并表示“天使投资要比以往任何时候都强，芝加哥和俄亥俄州风投对中西部创业公司的兴趣在这些年也大幅增加。”我曾经也是芝加哥科技圈的参与者，这话我爱听。
培训并不是最性感的行业，但增长是一家年轻公司能展示的最具吸引力的东西。Lesson.ly 是否能实现其 2015 年的增长预期令人期待，祝他们好运。
Training-As-A-Service Startup Lesson.ly Picks Up $1.1M After Growing Its Revenue 850% In 2014
Lesson.ly, a startup that provides onboarding and training tools, announced this morning that it has raised a $1.1 million round led by Allos Ventures, and participated in by several angels. The firm claims to be the first company to “count all three ExactTarget co-founders as investors.” ExactTarget, a Midwest company like Lesson.ly, was acquired by Salesforce in 2013.
The $1.1 million follows a smaller seed round in 2013. The company declined to detail the amount of its former fundraising. It did note that its most recent capital event was oversubscribed — the company had initially planned to raise a flat $1 million, but accepted 10 percent more cash.
The company intends to use its new capital, it informed TechCrunch, to grow its marketing spend, and build out its product, normal enough stuff.
TechCrunch last discussed Lesson.ly in late 2013, when the company had three employees, and revenue growth in the hundreds of percent per month. Given its youth at that stage, however, the relative percentages weren’t too meaningful — the law of large numbers does work to the inverse, in reverse. Today, Lesson.ly has 10 employees, expects to make it to 12 by the end of the year, and plans to nearly double its staff in 2015.
According to the company’s founder and CEO Max Yoder, Lesson.ly’s revenue has grown 850 percent this year. He expects the company’s top line to grow 300 percent in 2015.
Lesson.ly counts companies like Stripe and Lyft among its customer base, Yoder told TechCrunch. I asked if the company was heavily dependent on any single customer, but was told that no single account constitutes more than 10 percent of its revenue.
As a company, Lesson.ly stands out somewhat for being a staunchly non-Valley play, but one that is more than willing to sell to Valley-centric customers. I asked Yoder how the Midwest startup scene was growing. He cited several exits as important moments, and stated that “angel funding is stronger than ever, and interest from Chicago and Ohio VCs has grown significantly over the years.” I was once a participant in the Chicago technology scene, making that somewhat edifying to hear.
Training is not the sexiest technology, but growth is the most attractive thing a young company can post. It will be interesting to see if Lesson.ly can not only meet its 2015 growth expectations, but best them.
来源：techcrunch
非公开募资18亿 看用友的下一步走向？
前两天一直传闻阿里有意入股用友，用友公告接连停牌，也让外界对于阿里入股用友有了更多的猜测，可是公告期满后，我们并没有看到阿里身影。一切如同传闻一样变得扑朔迷离。
18亿非公开募资成为用友下一步走向的悬案，据公告显示,募集资金将使用于:1)用友企业互联网服务项目(6.7亿元);2)用友企业互联网公共服务平台项目(3.8亿元);3)用友互联网金融数据服务平台项目(3亿元);4)偿还银行借款及补充流动资金(4.5亿元)。从资金流流向上来看，偿还借款和现金流占了大部分，剩下的基本上都用于用友转型企业互联网的需要，也可以看出未来用友转型的重点，互联网金融是用友下一个布局的重点，也关系着用友在互联网行业的成败。有媒体也报道说“用友要做企业级互联网市场中的BAT”，但这从目前来看做企业级的BAT还需要一定的时间，因为企业互联网市场才刚刚起步，大家都有试水阶段，暂时还不足以浮起BAT这样的巨型战舰，用友的提前布局也显示了用友转型的决心。
另外一点是用友企业互联网服务项目和公共服务平台占了近一半，而用友企业互联网服务项目将会以SaaS应用为主，为40万大中型企业客户互联网化铺路，UAP平台将在这里面扮演着重要的角色，所以用友将会向UAP云平台投入更多的资金，用友企业互联网生态圈的打造，为企业客户提供财会、营销及企业互联云、HR、协同与社交四大类SaaS层应用，从这几点可以看出，用友云端SaaS触点已初见雏形，自从用友易代账免费之后，成为最大的云记账平台，HR产品线在SaaS端的产品尚还在规划当中，协同与社交应该会由畅捷通的工作圈担此重任，用友也是继伟库停滞后首次重启SaaS之路。
前两天T哥还跟业界的同仁聊天，明年SaaS有可能复兴，虽然SaaS被云取代有很多人不愿意再提及，但是SaaS模式并没有被淘汰，从北森的HR人力资源测评到微信公众企业号，以及老牌的SaaS CRM提供商Xtools，虽然在云时代大家纷纷换颜，但是SaaS依然在我们身边没有走远，因此可以预计SaaS这个名词有可能会被重新开启和定位。因为云被定义太宽泛了，各种各样的云也让用户难以区分哪朵云是他们需要的，只有SaaS会更聚焦，所以我们要期待一下SaaS的王者归来。
另外， “用友企业互联网公共服务平台”项目将会以开放PaaS接口为主，借力开发伙伴，加速构建互联网生态圈。一方面以开发模块免费的策略来吸引大量开发者，另一方面为具有开发能力的企业客户提供IT运维、数据分析、社区/商城、BaaS等服务。其中这里面有一个关键词是BaaS服务。
BaaS翻译后叫后端即服务：Backend as a Service专门为移动应用开发者提供整合云后端的边界服务。SaaS（软件即服务：Software as a Service）、IaaS（基础设施即服务：Infrastructure as a Service）和PaaS（平台即服务：Platform as a Service）早已为业界人士所熟悉 ，BaaS生态系统是一个小众的垂直领域迅速成长起来的。按理说用友并没有BaaS的能力，现在主流的EbaaS和MbaaS比较多，而用友UAP显然还不能担此重任，而阿里一直在打造云端开发能力，具备 了BaaS的技能和产业生态。华为也一直在打主打，不知道用友是否跟这两家公司有关联。但是用友的确需要BaaS能力完善自已的公有云和私有云的产业链接，特别是移动后端服务以及企业后端服务，都是用友必需的，从这个公告中出现的关键词更加让人有点琢磨不透是谁助力用友BaaS端的成长。难道是未来要逐渐露出真容的隐形者吗？
同时，用友18亿元共占公司当前总股本的8.5%，上市公司的定增必然会吸引更多的资本大鳄争相参与，但也不排除象BAT这样的巨头参与其中，随着用友的定增发行事情也日渐明了，原来认为不可能的很有可能成为可能。资本市场和战略布局对于任何一个公司的发展都同等重要。
来源：人称T客
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