LinkedIn CEO: We’d only sell for “a helluva lot”

I wouldn’t pay jack for linked in because jack isn’t there.

You could say that LinkedIn membership grew 500% in my office alone last week. That’s because all our our rookie salesmen troll the thing for leads. Our veterans checked it out and don’t waste their time on it. Its unimpressive by nearly any real metric.

We are seeing this with the fitness market with http://www.trainhero.com and http://www.sparkpeople.com

I’ve found that it is little more than a name-generating tool. How else would you get the name of the Project Manager working on IT infrastructure projects at a Fortune 500? Or some other person you’re trying to reach for whatever purpose.

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Just more hot air… O some *new* feature, like what? Give them 20 of your friends email and enter to win a free hotair ballon ride? And you can bet that at Facebook or LinkedIn a high percent of those “memebers” are mostly, non-active, never go to the site, just signed up and have never been back people!

As with all tech companies, tell us the profit not the revenue.

Hundreds of dotcom blowups had “revenues” of 300M+ and ended with nothing.

Tell us profit - don’t both with the revenue.

I agree with Yadgyu, There is absolutely no interest for LinkedIn to be another kinda “facebook”.
WSJ’s to-be-found linkage to LinkedIn would be great if they could make it without any Myspace’s interference.

Do you want to hire a professional who spends all his time at Linkedln in stead of workplace?

“Is LinkedIn looking to provide certain components of its code to the industry similar to how FaceBook has been growing with developers?”

I certainly hope not.

LinkedIn is not about being the “it” site that many people will use. It should remain as closed as possible to maintain a sense of professionalism and authenticity. The last thing the web needs is another MySpace or Facebook. Those sites are for younger people who want to make friends and goof off. LinkedIn is for business people that do not want to deal with the hodge-podge nature of other social networking sites. I think that linking this site with The Wall Street Journal would be an excellent idea. LinkedIn and WSJ would compliment each other very nicely.

I could definitly see them introducing some business collaborative applications. They have the perfect base of potential users.

Berkeley, your question:
“Those 17 million “members” — are they paying members (at around $250 per year) or does that 17M include all the freeloaders ”

Is clearly answered in the text:
“Nye predicted revenues will range from $75 million to $100 million next year.”

(And not all linkedIn revenue comes from subscriptions by the way)

LinkedIn has very strong collaborative components that will work great for a contractor that is looking to find another source of labor within a tight community. There are some issues that currently would prevent it from taking off. Is LinkedIn looking to provide certain components of its code to the industry similar to how FaceBook has been growing with developers? If so, I would thoroughly enjoy exploring the opportunities since I firmly believe in the LinkedIn, see opportunities clearly and have limited concerns that I know LinkedIn can easily work around with just a little partner assistance. Brian and the team of MyOnlineToolbox.com

I think they’re mostly freeloaders like you and me.

Those 17 million “members” — are they paying members (at around $250 per year) or does that 17M include all the freeloaders (like me) who have profiles and networks but haven’t paid up and therefore don’t get many benefits of the service?

As a small business, they might be able to get me to pay if I could be more confident of seeing some real benefits via, say, a free trial period.