LinkedIn is one of the largest professional social networking sites that allows users to connect with colleagues and find potential business opportunities. It enables easy communication between professionals and helps businesses connect with customers. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn now has over 225 million members worldwide and helps users discover people in their industry, view resumes of potential employees, and get recommendations.

1. Jared Gradowski
September 23,2013
LINKEDIN

2. WHAT IS LINKEDIN??
• Its one of the largest professional Networks
• Social Networking site
• Allows you to discover many other people in your profession or gives you business
opportunities
• Helps you start up your own business
• Gives you newsfeed, of what's happening around the world
• What is LinkedIn? - YouTube
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3. BENEFITS
• Enables easy email connection
• Helps inform people how to get in touch with others
• Allows businesses to get in touch with potential customers
• LinkedIn For Business Step by Step Tutorial - YouTube
• Ease of advertising
• Getting Started with LinkedIn Ads - YouTube
• Allows users to view resumes of potential employees
• LinkedIn Tutorial - Uploading A Resume - YouTube
• Recommendations
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4. HISTORY OF LINKEDIN
• CEO Jeff Weiner from Yahoo Inc. & Chairman of The Board
• Founded by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin
Guericke, Stephen Betizel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante & Chris Saccheri from
PayPal & Socialnet.com
• Headquarters is in Mountain View, California With offices in Omaha, Chicago, New York,
London and Dublin.
• Funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture partners
and European Founders Fund.
• January 2011, Received total $103 Million Of investments
• 2003,Sequoia Capital led Series A investment in the Co.
• June 2008, Firms Purchased 5%Stake in Co. for $53Mil., Giving Valuation of $1Bil.
• 2010, Opened International HQ’s in Dublin, Ireland
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5. MEMBERSHIP
• 225 Million Members in over 200 Countries and Territories
• US has 74 Million For Linkedin
• India has 20 Million
• UK has 11 Million
• Canada has 7 Million
• Australia has 4 Million
• UAE has 1.3 Million
• Competitors have less members
• Viadeo has 50 Million
• Xing has 10 Million
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6. LOGGING IN?
• http://www.linkedin.com/
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8. WORKS CITED
• http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=what_is_linkedin
• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/LinkedIn
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn
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