Comments on: Who Should Be on LinkedIn’s M&A Shopping List?

By: Kelly McLaughlin

Kelly McLaughlin — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:33:44 +0000

If LinkedIn is going to acquire a “job site”, they should look at niche sites in growing markets (healthcare for instance). I have always wondered why someone hasn’t picked up ontargetjobs.com – they have great sites in healthcare, biotech, hospitality and even a group of sites that focuses on smaller DMA’s in the US and Canada. If I were LinkedIn, I would take a long hard look at them.

By: Brian Petersson

Brian Petersson — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:18:07 +0000

If they are serious about growing their recruitment revenue stream, they will likely need to acquire some type of job site, but as most in the industry (and those making long term investments) know, general job sites (Monster etc.) are dying (due to market forces such as LinkedIn and Indeed), so they need to go niche. The best group of niche sites is owned by a relaitly unknown company called OnTargetJobs. They have healthcare, biotech, hospitality and a group of sites that covers smaller markets around the US and Canada.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 22 May 2011 10:39:09 +0000

Work4 Labs http://www.work4labs.com

By: Bhupendra

Bhupendra — Sat, 21 May 2011 17:58:35 +0000

Youstory.in could be a great fit for LinkedIn to set-up a strong footprint in another important market for LinkedIn after US, which is India. Yourstory is the heart of start-ups and entrepreneurship in India, and this can help LinkedIn build a strong ecosystem around its core services.

The other company would be SnapDeal.com, a group buying site from India (also called GroupOn of India)!! I seriously feel that LinkedIn needs to expand to other web fields, and not depend too much on its core service. LinkedIn as a site can only take them so far.

By: maximus

maximus — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:05:26 +0000

Eventbrite

By: Scott Love

Scott Love — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:16:50 +0000

Before they do any M&A, they need to consider a complete re-design and UI approach.

By: Todd Hopkins

Todd Hopkins — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:14:10 +0000

They should be looking at WikiOrgCharts, it’s a stealth company but hiding in plain site.

By: Colleen Taylor

Colleen Taylor — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:07:17 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up on Viadeo, Mark. LinkedIn could very well look to increase its international footprint through M&A.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:04:13 +0000

Jobvite. Definitely jobvite.

By: Mark Littlewood

Mark Littlewood — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:47:15 +0000

I know you are American and everything so don’t really recognise the rest of the world but Viadeo for example has over 30,000,000 members. Most of them don’t speak American though.

http://corporate.viadeo.com/en/qui-sommes-nous-en.html