http://blog.livemocha.com from idea to market Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:51:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sunday was big day for all of us at Livemocha. Livemocha was covered in a major story in the New York Sunday edition along with ChinesePod, another excellent language learning solution. The story titled ????????Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home was written by Anne Eisenberg who authors the ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2008/02/19/livemocha-makes-the-new-york-times/ I am very pleased to announce that Livemocha recently closed a $6 million in funding led by Maveron, a leading Seattle area venture capital firm. Maveron was founded by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks and Dan Levitan in 1998 and has tremendous consumer and e-learning expertise that we hope to ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2008/01/15/livemocha-secures-6-million-in-funding-led-by-maveron/ November has been a very busy month for our team. Our developers have worked very hard to bring forth the best features possible to make the experience of learning a new language fun and engaging. You may have noticed some of their work: • Audio Comments – You now have the ability ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/12/01/exciting-updates-to-livemocha/ Yesterday, John Cook from the Seattle PI posted an article in his blog about the Top Seattle Startups. It noted that Livemocha was the biggest mover in the list from last month. This is very exciting to see. However, the list is based on a 3 month average and we ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/11/02/seattle-20-top-startup-list/ Livemocha launched last week at DEMOfall in San Diego. Demo is a premier conference with a great reputation for showcasing the latest startup technology. You get essentially 6 minutes to make a brief yet compelling pitch to the audience which consists primarily of press, VCs and established companies like Microsoft, ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/10/08/news-from-demo/ After many months of hard work, the time has come to unveil the fruits of our labor. Welcome to Livemocha -- we are building the world's largest community of language learners. The language learning market is a huge worldwide market growing rapidly due to macro economic trends such as globalization, ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/09/24/livemocha-is-live-today-come-join-us-in-our-language-cafe/ A number of people have been asking me lately about when they can expect to see LiveMocha in action. I am very pleased to say that we have now entered a "closed" beta phase of our launch. Our team has done an amazing amount of work to get to this ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/08/28/the-road-to-launch/ Since we started LiveMocha, I am often asked whether we are getting our software development done in India. People are generally surprised to find out that, in fact, all of our software development is done right here in Bellevue, WA. I guess given the fact that I am of Indian ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/07/29/to-outsource-or-not-outsource-that-is-the-question/ The buzz around iPhone as we all know is reaching a fever pitch. Steve Jobs has said that they expect to sell 10 million iPhones by end of 2008. Is iPhone going to be a major hit as the industry expects or be a failure (at least compared to ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/06/16/iphone-irock-or-iflop/ April was a month of great progress. We added 3 additional team members to our team reaching a total strength of 7 people. One more person will be joining us in early May. We have folks from a great array of companies including Microsoft, RIM, Opsware, Revenue Science and Amazon. Development ... http://blog.livemocha.com/2007/05/10/april-update/