Comments on: Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion?

By: Business Networks and the Value of Linkedin | Radical Marketer

Business Networks and the Value of Linkedin | Radical Marketer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:39:53 +0000

[...] want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Linked is valued as $ 1 billion. See Om Malik’s artice (or Techchrunch article). I agree with a valuation methodology based on users (even [...]

By: Çağlar Erol » Blog Archive » LinkedIn’in yeni finansmanı ve XING üzerine

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:47:15 +0000

[...] Om Malik, önceki finansmanın yapıldığı Haziran ayında bu değerlemenin yüksek olduğunu söylemişti. Bence şimdi de XING’e bakmak bir yanıt [...]

By: ScribeMedia.Org | More Legs for LinkedIn

ScribeMedia.Org | More Legs for LinkedIn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:33:27 +0000

[...] LinkedIn in April started a similar partnership with BusinessWeek.com. Following its latest round of funding, LinkedIn is now valued at $1 [...]

By: בועה 2.0 - Dotmad (on .Net)

בועה 2.0 - Dotmad (on .Net) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:20:40 +0000

[...] יותר אפילו לאור השווי שוק האדיר שנקבע לה. מצד שני כל הלהטוטים החשבונאיים לא מסתירים את העובדה שמדובר ברשת חברתית המתחרה ברשתות [...]

By: Linkedin Resumes Reasearch Efforts | Venture Capital Cafe

Linkedin Resumes Reasearch Efforts | Venture Capital Cafe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:42:05 +0000

[...] it’s $53 million round led by Bain Capital, based on a $1 billion valuation. At the time many prominent blogs raised their virtual eyebrows by the high price. From their point of view the price was inflated. I [...]

By: Is Linkedin worth a Billion Dollars? VC Commentary « Koo’s Corner

Is Linkedin worth a Billion Dollars? VC Commentary « Koo’s Corner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:00:21 +0000

[...] 22, 2008 Technology blog GigaOM had a great piece analyzing Linkedin’s billion dollar valuation in their latest round of funding. Accompanying that piece was a video (featured below) made by [...]

By: Faux Gentleman

Faux Gentleman — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:22:15 +0000

no killer app + piss poor interface = mediocre service

By: Links of the Week June 20th, 2008 | .eduGuru

Links of the Week June 20th, 2008 | .eduGuru — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:23:16 +0000

[...] Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion? – You have probably heard the news that LinkedIn picked up $53 million for a 5% stake in the company. Well this is an interesting breakdown if it’s actually worth it or not. [...]

By: WebbAlert - June 19, 2008 | TechTV Update

WebbAlert - June 19, 2008 | TechTV Update — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:38:35 +0000

[...] one of the highest valuations for a networking site. Om Malik was initially shocked at that number, but after he did the math and compared it with Xing – a similar company – he found that Linked-In’s valuation is not out of line with the value [...]

By: WebbAlert - June 19, 2008

WebbAlert - June 19, 2008 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:21:22 +0000

By: Tom OKeefe

Tom OKeefe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:50:14 +0000

Based on revenues of $100 million (with zero costs) LinkedIn is valued (according to Bizak Calculator) at $399,999,984 – 40% lower than their recent valuation of $1 billion. Using the Bizak Calculator with 20 million subscribers you get earnings of $0.42 per subscriber. Computing EPV for the 5.6 million active visitors then LinkedIn earns $1.49 per visitor.

As we know Facebook was recently valued at $15 billion. The Facebook valuation may be a bit extreme but they’re a premium brand that will be a force for years to come. LinkedIn on the other hand is not a premium brand, however I assume that LinkedIn will be easier to monetize than Facebook. The main reason being LinkedIn knows my entire work history whereas Facebook only knows who my friends are. With my work history Bain likely has a iron clad plan to convert my connections into a cash cow for LinkedIn. However, even with this profitability I don’t think LinkedIn will ever become a premium internet brand, but they’re probable a safer bet for investors.

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By: LinkedIn Valued at $1 Billion! Bizak Estimate = $398,799,984 « Tom O’Keefe

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:21:07 +0000

[...] LinkedIn worth a billion dollars? GigaOM ran some numbers based on subscribers – I’ll take a look at revenues and compute their [...]

By: fabianschonholz

fabianschonholz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:49:37 +0000

I think that a company is valued as much as the market is willing to pay for it.

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » June 18th blogging - '08

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » June 18th blogging - '08 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:28:07 +0000

[...] LinkedIn worth $1B? [...]

By: YUvamani

YUvamani — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:58:53 +0000

Check out Monsters valuation: 2.65 billion (http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MNST).

LinkedIn may be many things for many people but its main revenue / profit source is going to be head hunters / recruiters and jobs. Advertising is promising, But as most people in this thread have said, they do not visit it regularly enough to monetize it.

Thus as compared to monster, LinkedIn is a source of “higher” quality resumes than monster, but definitely lower volume. Thus the valuation is not completely out of place. Linked In does not monetize like monster does, But then it is still a startup and has chance to experiment…

Facebook and LinkedIn have similar problems in monetizing. I get some good quality job leads from linked in and I assume those recruiters pay linked in .. However the best jobs are usually found because that old colleague is now in this promising new company etc … Activities for which I use linked in but for which linked in got nothing. (I buy products because of friends which may go through a facebook wall or a message or a IM , but facebook does not / cannot monetize that easily especially after the beacon brouhaha)

By: Adwait Ullal

Adwait Ullal — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:20:04 +0000

The concept might be worth a billion but does the platform perform to merit that valuation?

I think not.

In the last six months, members with large networks ('000+ connections) could not browse their OWN connections or accept invitations without receiving some kind of errors.

Now that it was raising money, LinkedIn has cleaned up some of it's act but the experience of the last six to eight months has a left a bad taste. Going forward, members might no longer be willing to invest time on a platform that is suspectible to collapse at any time.