LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has pulled off something extraordinary in his book-writing debut.
The new company now sports both Zenstrom and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman as board members.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha.
According to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, the site is increasingly becoming a peer-to-peer career-development network.
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Meanwhile, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs Group, McGraw-Hill Co. and LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman are selling shares.
Talk to Reid Hoffman, Hub Ventures, Kapor Capital, Omidyar Network or many others.
Among the big winners: LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, his venture firm Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Other noteworthy angel investors who have already profited off Zynga: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal mafioso Peter Thiel.
Steve Blank, Reid Hoffman, Eric Ries and many others have popularized the concept of the LEAN methodology for Start Ups.
Reid Hoffman is one of the most prolific angel investors in tech startups from Facebook and Zynga to Airbnb and Zipcar.
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman was an early investor in Facebook, and early LinkedIn employee Matt Cohler jumped ship to join Facebook.
In a venture industry filled with talented investors, high-profile former entrepreneurs like Khosla, Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman bring credibility with entrepreneurs.
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Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, has said that entrepreneurship is like jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.
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Funders in the Series A round were Greylock Partners (with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman as lead investor), Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures nad Neoteny Labs.
Among those who will be discussing the topic: the Archbishop of Dublin, a professor of Psychology and the founder and chairman of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman.
And rest assured, Reid Hoffman is making it a lot easier for many smaller companies to raise some much needed cash of their own.
Thum and partner John Zapolski (LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman is also an investor) make rings, necklaces, and these handsome cuff links, designed by Roland Iten.
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Among the earliest people to grasp the importance of this social transformation was Reid Hoffman, a Stanford graduate who in 2000 became one of PayPal's earliest executives.
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Over the last year, the social network revolution has made tycoons out of the likes of Sean Parker, Eduardo Saverin, Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman.
Back in 2003, Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD).
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But when it came time to ask someone to pick seven people who weild the most power in social media, there was only one name that came to mind: Reid Hoffman.
TEDx Silicon Valley featured speakers ranging from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal founder Peter Thiel to neo-geographer Di-Ann Eisnor (she makes maps that reflect social data) and Victor Tsaran, who is blind and runs Yahoo!'
The biggest beneficiaries of the public offering will be co-founder Reid Hoffman who maintains a 21.4% stake in the company, his firm Greylock Partners (15.8%), and other venture backers Sequoia Capital (18.9%) and Bessemer Venture Partners (5.1%).
So on behalf of myself, on behalf of our visionary founder, Reid Hoffman, without whom none of this would have been possible, on behalf of our employees, of course our members, on behalf of our country, thank you, Mr. President.
While the Rhodes and the Marshall have produced a list of famous leaders, including Bill Clinton, Susan Rice and Rachel Maddow (Rhodes) and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (Marshall), the Mitchell is too young to have such an illustrious roster.
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While Facebook continues its world domination plan, at least in the area of social networking, Reid Hoffman, one of its earliest investors, says the people need more than one social network, during an on-stage interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Monday.
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