As the economy stumbles, professionals may have a predictable response in heightened levels of stress. LinkedIn asks Stanford professor Dr. Robert Sapolsky about what's really happening when we stress about problems in our head.
All footage of "Stress: Portrait of a Killer" courtesy Stanford and National Geographic.
LinkedIn's Wordpress App launches. Wordpress Founder Matt Mullenweg introduces and Lead Developer Alex Shiels demos the LinkedIn App.
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While the Internet reaches maturity as a marketplace, mobile is blowing up - to the tune of $300 billion in the next five years. LinkedIn talks to some industry players to get a better picture.
Featuring:
Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu
Gregg Spiridellis, CEO & Co-founder of JibJab
Mitch Rotter, SVP Content & Acquisitions of Thumbplay
Sasha Strauss, CEO of brand strategy consulting firm Innovation Partners, talks about how he used LinkedIn to hire everyone in his agency - through trusted referrals.
Steven Shimek, executive at PR firm -- Ruder Finn, uses LinkedIn to maintain his business development relationships. Besides pursuing leads, he's also used LinkedIn Answers to bring in nearly $250K in business!
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
Scott Rafer, serial entrepreneur, reaches out to the co-founders of MyBlogLog through LinkedIn. On becoming CEO, he lead the company to a Yahoo! acquisition rumored at $10M.
Sequoia Capital, managing partner, Mark Kvamme leverages his trusted network to get a meeting the next day with Ross Levinsohn through a high profile recommendation from Mark Andreessen.
David All (Owner, David All Group Media Strategies), Jeffrey Taylor (SVP at Fleishman Hillard - PR/Govt. Relations), Jon Praed (Founding Partner, Internet Law Group) and Richard Kosinski (VP, Political Advertising at Yahoo!) discuss how to use LinkedIn as a political consulting utility.