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Creative Discovery Company Behance Raises $6.5 Million From Jeff Bezos, Union Square Ventures And Others – Business Insider

After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More – TechCrunch

Behance Goes from Bootstrapped to VC-Backed with $6.5 Million Funding - Pando Daily

Behance Lands $6.5M From USV and Others, Gets Ready to Scale – BetaBeat

After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More – The Chronicle

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos backs Behance, a place for artists to showcase their talents – GeekWire

Behance shows off your creative talent, attracts its first investor – Venture Beat

Joomlavision walks readers through setting up their Behance profiles, portfolios & ProSites to gain optimal exposure, highlighting the network as an ideal tool for web designers. In addition to praising the site, they included some great visuals from ProSite:

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Designmodo reports that; “Behance gives web designers the opportunity to display their work, network with peers, and find an easier path to exposure than they would with traditional marketing practices. With millions of users worldwide and a high amount of traffic, the Behance network has exploded in growth and is attracting not only great web designers, but also the people who hire them.”

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On May 1, Behance partnered with Pinterest, along with Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo, to drastically improve attributions on pins.

In an interview with Wired, Behance CEO Scott Belsky  explained some of the issues the creative community faced that lead to this new feature:

“The greatest design work, illustration, photography — and any other creation — has the tendency to be shared on other websites, often times without a link back or even a proper credit,” says Scott Belsky, cofounder of Behance, a community of creative professionals. “As a result, creative careers often fail to benefit from the exposure that their work receives.”

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For more insights from Scott on the Pinterest collaboration, read his blog post on the launch

Vandelay Design created a round-up and review of every online portfolio tool currently available to creative professionals. Here’s what they had to say about Behance:

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A recent article on My Central Jersey a graphic design instructor at Anthem Institute in North Brunswick explains why it’s important for students to take advantage of tools like Behance. She states:

“We use two tools specifically, LinkedIn and Behance.net. Using the sites together has greatly increased the number of interviews that our students have gotten.”

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In a recent roundup of career advice for social media enthusiasts, Behance Community Manager, Sarah Rapp, advises candidates to highlight their outgoing personality traits.

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Behance Community Manager, Sarah Rapp, chats with GraphicDesign.com about Behance’s upcoming Portfolio Review Week.

Read the full article here and learn more about Behance Portfolio Reviews here.

In a recent interview for Italian Vogue, Art Director and Editor-in-Chief Riccardo Capuzzo, lists Behance as “a must-visit design blog.” Capuzzo says “[Behance] is a social network for designers where you can publish your own portfolio. I use it as a blog and visit it every day to see if there is any new interesting work.”

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“Dominic Le-Hair, a graphic designer from Dogsthorpe, has been catapulted from crafting free type-faces in snatched moments, to seeing his work used in a major advertising campaign for GAP.

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Creative directors working on the GAP campaign tracked Dominic down to his family home in Dogsthorpe after coming across his eye-catching alphabets at the online portfolio site Behance.net.”

Peterborough Graphic Designer, Dominic Le-Hair, was recently featured on the evening Telegraph and his recent career-changing campaign with the Gap is traced back to his Behance portfolio. We love hearing success stories like this one!

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