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9-713-420 REV: MARCH 19, 2013 DAVID YOFFIE LIZ KIND LinkedIn Corporation, 2012 Jeff Weiner, chief executive officer of Mountain View, CA based LinkedIn Corporation (LinkedIn), reflected on how much LinkedIn had grown since its founding in 2003. Since its inception, LinkedIn had become a leading Silicon Valley institution with a brand name that was recognizable throughout the U.S. and in many countries overseas. As of March 2012, LinkedIn was the world’s largest professional network on the Internet

LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world that was started by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and Jean-Luc Vaillant in 2002 (all who were once employed by PayPal), although the launch of the LinkedIn website was in 2003 attracting 4,500 members (LinkedIn, 2011). LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman along with Zynga’s co-founder Marc Pincus backed Mark Zuckerberg in the startup days of Facebook. He is also a partner in a company called Greylock that has invested

LinkedIn is the largest professional social networking site in the world, focused on business. It made its first official appearance on the internet in May of 2003. Within a month after its launch, LinkedIn had successfully gained close to 5,000 members (LinkedIn, Corp. 2014). Today, LinkedIn has over 300 million members looking to improve their employment options. This success can be largely attributed to the characteristics or features offered through membership, benefits members attain with

LinkedIn LinkedIn is a website specifically established for the professionals all around the world to network. The website allows people to search for business contacts, manage their professional identity, research firms, join industry groups and identify desired career opportunities. This website is also being leveraged by the brands and recruiters and many corporate profiles have been established on LinkedIn to recruit candidates and develop a pool of potential candidates through networking (Lewis

9-112-006 REV: JANUARY 6, 2012 FRANCOIS BROCHET JAMES WEBER LinkedIn Corporation Every once in a while, a company comes around that transforms an industry in such a way that investors have difficulty grasping just how big it may one day become […] We believe LinkedIn can be one of these companies. —Morgan Stanley Research, June 28, 2011 On the evening of July 7, 2011, the price f or LinkedIn’s shares closed at $94. This closing price gave LinkedIn a market capitalization of $8.9 billion: 37.5 times its

Top 10 Blogging Groups on LinkedIn to Promote your Content in 2017 Promoting your content through social media is a great idea, but you must have a big platform for content promotion. LinkedIn is one of the best social media network for content promotion. But if you haven’t thousands of connections, your promotion through LinkedIn may not give expected results. You have to build huge LinkedIn connection to achieve the best results, but doing this may take a lot of time. The level of promotions depends

Stacey Wilson Week 2 Project “LinkedIn” Executive Summary This paper addresses LinkedIn Corporation. This article explains how Linked in business model works. It describes the form of business LinkedIn is, services it provides, its market position, how the business operates, channels of distribution, the company’s management and present and future company’s sources and uses of funds. A. Company LinkedIn Corporation is the company to study. LinkedIn Corporation operates as a corporation

LinkedIn is synonymous with interpersonal business connections. Looking at my LinkedIn homepage on any day, mostly what I see is "Harry is now connected to Sally," "John is now connected to David" etc. Only a small minority of LinkedIn members are REALLY using the available tools beyond the easy way of starting connections; more businesspeople need to start posting articles they like, expressing opinions, listing upcoming events, asking or answering questions, commenting on someone else 's posting

Your Own LinkedIn Group We’ve just covered why it is smart to join a LinkedIn Group, but if you want to take your experience on the platform to the next level, why not start your own? Here are some of the best tips for setting up a group that is poised for success, gaining membership that will make the group active, and keeping the group active throughout “dead” times. Setting up The Group As we’ve already said, there are over 2 million LinkedIn Groups currently, with over 200 million LinkedIn users

The social networking service, Facebook, was created by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate, who both attended Harvard University, and launched Facebook in February 2004 (Phillips, 2007). Once the social networking sight went viral, the website's membership was no longer limited to Harvard students- college students from the rest of the United States and Canada soon started to use the social media service (History of Facebook, 2014). Facebook has become so popular and globally spread, that