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 [...]
Jason Calacanis (Weblogs, Inc. founder and now SVP of AOL in charge of the Netscape product) says in his blog that LinkedIn, which was once an “annoying distraction” has now become for him an “essential business tool”. He recounts the story of posting a job recently via LinkedIn:
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 was [...]