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LinkedIn is an online network of more than 21 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.

When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to...More»

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Date Type Capital Amount Post-Money Valuation Investors
11/2003 Series A 4.7M Unknown
10/2004 Series B 10M Unknown
01/2007 Series C 12.8M Unknown
06/2008 Series D 53M 1060M

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Name:Linkedin
Product URL:http://www.linkedin.com/
Date Launched:05/2003
Description:LinkedIn is a business-oriented networking site mainly used for professional networking.
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Bulls vs. Bears (27)

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I like their "Groups" despite recent trouble, "Groups" adds value to networking

ryean 08/22/2008

Continuing to innovate - but they need to think about data quality as the site ages

dagsmith 08/14/2008

Very professional site

bbrunelle 08/09/2008
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They recycle their low-quality jobs frequently.

vivektaneja 07/30/2008

Where's the quality control (regarding members) when you need it???

vivektaneja 07/30/2008

A pile of dead resumes-- with a fork in it. Reid started a good thing, but that day is gone.

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voceman 04/25/2008
They have really been gaining traction of late, and the redesign offers lots of useful functionality. clarity00 05/16/2008
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LinkedIn's Usage
  • Started by: sherpa22
  • Date: Aug 10, 2008
  • Comments: 2
  • Last Comment: 26 days ago
The other day, I had a dicussion with some housemates about LinkedIN, and I was surprised to find that one of them (a financial analyst working at Kaiser) had never heard of the site.

I'm not very knowledgeable about analytics and don't know where to really start when looking for this kind of information, but how extensive is LinkedIN's popularity?

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jade_22 wrote at 11:55pm on Aug 11, 2008:

For some rough figures you can always try www.compete.com
On a side note I would like to say that my experience with linked in has been more about quality than quantity.
I am an aspiring web developer and recently posted a coding question on some typical developer forums. I finally tried linkedin's question/answer section and recieved my first of five comprehensive answers in literally 20 minutes. I'm sold.

clarity00 wrote at 12:01pm on Aug 12, 2008:

Yeah, I find LinkedIn usage to vary significantly by industry. Everyone in Tech/Internet uses it, but my friends in finance, medicine/healthcare are often not on it. Given it's a social network, the incentive to sign up varies depending on how may people in your circle/network is already on it, so I expect LinkedIn to penetrate those other verticals over time as more people find it worthwhile.

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LinkedIn's Usage
Aug 10, 2008 - 2 comments
The other day, I had a dicussion with some housemates about LinkedIN, and I was surprised to find that one of them (a financial analyst working at Kaiser) had never heard of the site. I'm not very knowledgeable about analytics and don't know where to really start when looking for this kind of information, but how extensive is LinkedIN's popularity?

Linked In and NYT Partnership
Jul 22, 2008 - 2 comments
What do you think of the Linked In New York Times Partnership? I can't decide if it's a brilliant idea or strange bedfellows. On one hand Linked In gets content and NYT gets online exposure. It's Win Win. But on the other hand will the deluge of NYT content dilute the strengths of Linked In as a clean and simple professional networking site?

Is LinkedIn a $1 Billion company?
Jun 17, 2008 - 4 comments
LinkedIn just raised $53mm at a valuation of over $1bn. Wow! They supposedly have annual revenues of $100mm, so this would be 10X their sales. I'm not sure how much profits they earned (if if they're even profitable). Do you think LinkedIn is worth $1 billion?

LinkedIn's feature
Jun 12, 2008 - 6 comments
Given that most of the recommendations are positive, do HR/Hiring people really look into what others have to say about their potential employees?

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