Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product! Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
This is incredibly good news - no not because it's another acquisition but rather it is an acquisition of a quality and worthwhile business that has a defined set of competitive advantages to sustain itself in the long-term. Love it.
I just looked at LinkedIn's P/E. It's almost a thousand. How is anyone valuating the company in such a way that could even assume they would increase their revenues 50 times over in the next few years?
The good news is that since the employees owned some we can be sure that they saw some of that 119M$. That being said their site died :-) [1] Random note: It seems to me that that KK would be the appropriate unit for millions (thousand-thousands) and MM would be Million Millions or (10^12, or trillions.
Mille, i.e. Latin for a thousand. Thus MM = 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000. I rarely see MM used to denote a million outside the financial world. I have never seen a job, for example listing remuneration as "circa 120M" meaning 120,000
It's widely used in advertising/marketing. CPM is Cost Per Thousand.
Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product! Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
Does LinkedIn own a Webex yet? If they're going from a recruiting site to a full business-communications type model (archiving, in this case) they're going to need it.
I just looked at LinkedIn's P/E. It's almost a thousand. How is anyone valuating the company in such a way that could even assume they would increase their revenues 50 times over in the next few years?
LinkedIn is the world's premier social network for professionals. I'd imagine there's a lot of ways to make money off that besides their current scheme of basically charging recruiters a ton of money. Just to throw wild ideas out: build more tools for recruiters. Own the whole software stack that runs the recruiting pipeline (coincidentally, jobvite is a piece of shit.) Create classes and certification programs that help replace college degrees. Cross company calendaring integrated with my gcal and work calendar (eg I want to have drinks with friends, and I want all my calendars to sync. I don't want my work cal to necessarily say that I'm having drinks or with whom, but I want the time to be unavailable.) Steal the job search market from indeed and simply hired. Do meetups tailored to professional activities like user groups. Do message boards and mailing lists for professional groups that don't suck (unlike their current offering.)
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
Then they should buy Yammer next.
But they need at least couple more hundreds of Millions to buy them.