Jason Calacanis is suddenly in love with LinkedIn, finding it a crucial business tool, instead of an annoyance. He likes their job-search features. Finally good to see that he is figuring out some of the good things about LinkedIn, though annoying email requests are still annoying. Hey Jason, I hope the change of heart isn’t because your new employer is Sequoia Capital, incidentally a backer of LinkedIn? Here is Jason’s profile on LinkedIn. Send him an email and get connected with him!
Apologies, but anyone who labels himself an “Entrepreneur in Action” probably wears a top hat, a bow tie, and black leather chaps, as well. No disrespect to Mr. Calacanis, whom I do not know, but it seems everyone is an entrepreneur these days. Search for “entrepreneur” on LinkedIn and be amazed at the thousands of wankers who claim that distinction. “Serial Entrepreneurs” by the score. How long must one be a “Serial Entrepreneur” before one is elevated to “Entrepreneur in Action”? Should I claim to be an “Entrepreneur in Training” on my LinkedIn profile if I once had an idea for a web app that held absolutely no promise?
Okay, I’ll lighten up now.
Mark
Send him an email and get connected with him!!!…ha ha..that was wicked
Interesting! Somehow I still think that LinkedIn is useless!
Oh LinkedIn is cool now? I guess I better run over there and get an account!!
I think you get value when:
a) you get over 500 or so contacts
and
b) you do and outbound job request and alert all those contacts
outside of that I haven’t found much value to be honest.
Mild segue away from Mr. Calacanis…
I recently noticed the advertising on LinkedIn.
Then again, it might have always been there. I removed Adblock and Filterset.G Updater just to see what things were like these days on web properties I frequent.
I’ve actually found LinkedIn to be very useful — and I am well under 500 contacts.
Linkedin is a very good site – quite useful and getting moreso all the time. Its the only social networking site to really break into business.
That being said, Mr. Calacanis strikes me as more than a little bit of an opportunist. Isn’t he busy destroying Digg, Dr. Evil-style, stroking a massive white cat while sitting atop his villain-chair? Oh, my mistake – that was last month. 🙂
That being said, the folks at Sequoia Capital are sharp…
Who is Calacanis and why is there news about him being on LinkedIn (who isn’t really)? Is he someone the business community should know about? Also why is there a feeling to this story that he didn’t like LinkedIn before?
LinkedIn has been a wonderful resource for managing my professional network, staying in touch with peers I respect and their career changes.
By the way, do you have Jason’s email address?
They and other Bloggers seem suprised at the valuation of 250M for LinkedIn.
I am not surprised at all.
Lets do some of the math.
If you are placing a 75K employee.
How much is LinkedIn worth to you? A 1,000 seems reasonable and lets say you land 5 placements a year.
That means you are willing to spend 5000 a year on Linkedin.
Lets say there are 10,000 headhunters/companies willing to do that.
Therefore 10,000 x 5,000 = 50,000,000 in annual revenue and thats just the placement market.
Most Bloggers only focus on one small part of the value of LinkedIn.
In their post Stefan and Cory speak about the cool aspects of LinkedIn and focus on the Job hunting.
While I am always happy to hear that people have discovered the value of LinkedIn. I am surprised at the limitations they put on it.
The finding a job part of LinkedIn is one of the things that make it useful which is what Stefan and Cory focused on.
But, if you are not looking for a job – then why bother with LinkedIn?
Here are just some of my thoughts on why LinkedIn is useful.
I think this gives you just a smattering of what LinkedIn could be used for.
And these are just the things I have discovered.
Take Care
Zale