Watch Jeffrey Glass (Bain Capital Ventures), David Sze (Greylock Partners), David Cowan (Bessemer Ventures), and Mark Kvamme (Sequoia Capital) describe their reasons for investing in LinkedIn. (June 2008)
Read more on the LinkedIn Blog
http://blog.linke din.com/blog/2008/06 /bain-capital-ve.htm l
Dan Lyons (FSJ blog) recounts his times answering questions from fans of the real steve jobs on his fake ceo blog. Dan also reveals his love of Macs and users' admiration for the real Steve Jobs.
Discover how filmmakers, producers and distributors are using LinkedIn to enable the business of
entertainment. Check out five separate interviews with LinkedIn Users.
Guy Kawasaki asks the first question from LinkedIn user Rob Getschmann on whether the Fake Steve Jobs blog is a riff?
Also, did Katie Cotton (VP of PR, Apple) purchase Fake Steve Jobs t-shirts on the blog before MacWorld?!
Brad Stone and Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) discuss the phenomenon of Fake CEO blogs, why FSJ succeeded while others failed, what could have been the genesis of the Fake Steve Ballmer blog and why parodying Ballmer is a challenge?!
LinkedIn announces the launch of their Spanish language site on July 23, 2008. Hear Dan Nye (CEO), Reid Hoffman (Co-founder), Patrick Crane (VP, Marketing) and a host of others introduce the new users and catch Florencia Pettigrew (International Marketing) provide a quick demo.
Dan Lyons talks about hiding from Walt Mossberg, celebrities who get his jokes well (iJustine), the joke about a NYT scoop a week after the WSJ gets it, and Red Sox pride!
A product post on three new feature releases going out on Nov 15th, which includes
a. Redefined Network Updates
b. Personal Notes | One-to-one messaging
c. Yahoo! Web Mail Importer
d. Groups - Click-and-connect
Brad Stone (New York Times) and Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs blog) recount to Guy Kawasaki the real story behind the outing and whether Dan planned it to sell more books? Dan also talks about his conversion to online journalism (blogging) and its numerous perks.