LinkedIn’s Lament: 50% Growth Isn’t Enough If P/E Is 1,000

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Investors this year have treated LinkedIn as a can’t-miss goldmine, snapping up the stock on dips, rallies and anything between. Shares surged a whopping 83% in 2013′s first four months, creating a stock-market monster with a price-earnings multiple of more than 1,000. It’s hard to keep that mania going for long — as investors found out when the careers-minded social network this afternoon provided its 2013 growth outlook. Get ready for revenue growth of 50% to 52% in the second … [Read more...]

LinkedIn CEO: We’re so much more than a Rolodex

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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner really wants you to stop thinking of LinkedIn as a digital resume. At a venture summit in Palo Alto today, he said LinkedIn used to be the place people went when they needed to find a job. They’d update their profile, connect with a few colleagues and abandon the site as soon as they got the job. That’s increasingly no longer the case. In recent years, LinkedIn has tried to transition into a daily destination for people to read articles relevant to their … [Read more...]

LinkedIn Gone Wild: ’20 Percent Time’ to Tinker Spreads Beyond Google

LinkedIn Gone Wild- ’20 Percent Time’ to Tinker Spreads Beyond Google

First Google offered workers “20 percent time” in which to tinker, then Apple reportedly followed with a similar program called “Blue Sky.” Now LinkedIn is quietly offering its own take on letting workers run wild with InCubator, a program that may well top what Google offers. Under InCubator, engineers can get 30 to 90 days away from their regular work to develop ideas of their own into products. Their ideas must first be developed into prototypes and clear two rounds of judging, … [Read more...]

Small Business Powerhouse Intuit Teams Up With Professional Social Network LinkedIn

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Venture Beat - Small business software powerhouse Intuit has released information concerning a possible partnership with professional social networking website Linkedin in order to assist small business owners make stronger hiring decisions. The initiative, know as "Hire Smart," kicks off with a free event featuring a host of speakers, including "apprentice" winner Bill Rancic, Intuit CEO Brad Smith and Linkedin CEO Jeff Weiner. … [Read more...]

Was LinkedIn Smart To Acquire SlideShare?

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Slideshare, the most effective way to share professional documents and presentations across the web, has just recently been acquired by Linkedin for a hefty sum of one hundred and eighteen million dollars. Was this a good move? The largest proffesional network buying out the largest 'professional slide sharing' network? one statistic worth noting may in fact have Linkedin competitors thinking they should have jumped on the slide share band wagon a bit earlier. Last March alone, SlideShare … [Read more...]

Linkedin Has A Twenty Million User Increase

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On Thursday Linkedin made notice of a twenty million user increase from their November total of just under one hundred and thirty million. These numbers were announced in a Q4 press release. Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, Member, Board of Directors at DonorsChoose said, “Q4 once again exceeded our expectations for member engagement and business growth. It was a fitting end to a memorable year in which we reinforced our position as the pre-eminent professional network on the web,” and … [Read more...]

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