Outgoing LinkedIn VP of Marketing Konstantin Guericke recently posted on MLPF and LinkedInnovators (and maybe somewhere else – sorry if I’m leaving anyone out) a wrap-up of what LinkedIn did in 2006. While they didn’t quite hit the 10 million mark they projected at the beginning of the year, they still impressively more than doubled . . .
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LinkedIn is in the process of finalizing another venture round for $13 million, valuing the company at a reported $250 million post-financing valuation. Linkedin is projecting revenues of $45M to $60M next year and expects to hit $100M in 2008. A valuation of 5x sales is excellent (but certainly not over-inflated), and demonstrates the faith . . . I found it fascinating that most of the blog headlines about this story focused on the negative — leaving, quitting, etc. — rather than the positive — joining. Maybe it’s me, but “quits” seems to imply that the person was unhappy where they were, which I’ve seen no indication of in this case, rather than . . . I was introducing myself on the b5media internal forums the other day, telling a little about Linked Intelligence, and getting welcome messages from some of b5′s other 100+ bloggers. The response from Jul (Veggie Chic, This non-American Life) was hilarious, and I think typical of how many bloggers are feeling about LinkedIn these days: I . . . LinkedIn Quote of the Day: LinkedIn is like MySpace for the business-school set. Instead of bad poetry, friend lists and beer-pong photos, users post resumes, resumes, and, uh, resumes. Like other social networks, however, it does feature testimonials. - Matthew Creamer in Advertising Age, “Social Network Says Julie Roehm’s Headed to Manhattan“, on the ouster . . . Somehow, in the move over to the b5media servers, my comments have become mysteriously disabled. I’ve looked, they’ve looked, and it’s just non-obvious. Since we’re going to be switching the whole template soon anyway, we’ve opted not to try to track it down any further, so comments on the blog are going to be disabled . . . As Jeff Barr, Lead Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, just noticed, one of the cool features LinkedIn has added recently is the ability to make your LinkedIn profile not only accessible to the public, but also to make an easy-to-remember unique URL (linkedin.com/in/scottallen vs. linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2369). Here’s an illustrated step-by-step how-to: . . . There was a great write-up of LinkedIn in Business 2.0/CNN this week: A MySpace for grown-ups It reiterated the theme of just how essential a business tool LinkedIn is becoming (see LinkedIn or Locked Out): “For many, it’s become irresponsible to not invite business associates into your LinkedIn network,” says Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, an assistant . . . I’m pleased to announce that Linked Intelligence will soon be joining the b5media network. With more than 150 blogs and two million unique visitors a month, b5media is one of the largest professional blogging networks, including some well-known business and technology blogs: Problogger by Darren Rowse Slacker Manager by Brendon Connelly Ensight by Jeremy Wright . . . |
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