Posts Tagged ‘LinkedIn’
LinkedOut - pruning my network
September 9th, 2007 • Technology
Tags: LinkedIn
I’ve been taking a hard look at the social networks I belong to lately. Specifically I’ve been looking at the people I’m linked to on LinkedIn. I used to think that the greatest value of LinkedIn would come from promiscuous linking. That is linking to anyone and everyone you can regardless of how well you know them. My thinking was that people would have an easier time of getting a hold of me if there were more possible avenues of access (if you use LinkedIn, you’ll understand what I mean by this). There is a large group of people who believe in this paradigm and continue to grow their networks in the hopes, it seems, to connect to everyone in the world and create a two degree separation between everyone on the planet.
BigThinkrs on LinkedIn
May 12th, 2007 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Venture Capital
Tags: entrepreneurship, LinkedIn, startups, Venture Capital
In an effort to improve communications between entrepreneurs in the southeast, we’ve setup a group within LinkedIn (named creatively enough - BigThinkr) for interested parties to join. The biggest benefit of having and joining this group is that you can send requests directly to others in the group without having to go through the (sometimes tedious) process of having a request relayed through folks. Of course, you have the option to enable or disable this on your account once you join. If you’re interested in joining the BigThinkr LinkedIn group just click here. Mind you, I’m going to pick through and hand approve each request. So first, it may take a while for you to be approved (depending on how many requests I get). Also, if you’re a service provider or someone who would normally be excluded from either the YnR events or the Capital Connections event, don’t even bother trying to get into the group. The idea here is to improve entrepreneur to entrepreneur networking (although investment folks who are actively looking for startups to fund are also welcome to join) in the Atlanta/Georgia/Southeast region.
So if you fit the bill, join our LinkedIn BigThinkr group and get involved in helping your fellow local entrepreneur.
ReviewMe: GoBigNetwork.com
January 4th, 2007 • 6 comments Business, Entrepreneurship + Startups
Tags: Digital-Envoy, fundraising, investors, LinkedIn, ReviewMe, startups, Venture Capital
Continuing the thoughts from my posting about diversifying revenue generation, I signed up to be a paid reviewer for ReviewMe. The following is a paid review for ReviewMe. To ensure that this review is not just about getting search engine links, I’m not directly linking to the reviewed site. If you want to visit the site, just copy and past the URL into your location bar.
These Last 6 Months and What Is Next
December 29th, 2006 • 4 comments Business, Technology
Tags: consulting, EarthLink, Emory-University, entrepreneurship, Ether, Goizueta-Business-School, Helio, Internet-video, LinkedIn, MARTA, Muni-WiFi, stock
I’ve refrained from talking about what I’ve been up to since I graduated from Emory’s Goizueta Business School. The time has come to discuss what I’ve been up to and what I’m going to do next.
Near the end of my school year (in early 2006), I got a call from EarthLink. After getting a hold of my resume, they were interested in having me come and interview. I’ve been a long time shareholder of the company (I bought stock in MindSpring soon after it went public in 1996) and thought this might be a good opportunity to know the company better. So I did the interview. Then another. And then another.
