Comments on: The Latest Social Network Valuations http://nuanceintelligence.com/the-latest-social-network-valuations/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:53:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Duncan Work http://nuanceintelligence.com/the-latest-social-network-valuations/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Duncan Work Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:39:25 +0000 http://nuanceintelligence.com/the-latest-social-network-valuations/#comment-184 Social networks that offer real value for organizations and professionals can go beyond relying primarily on ad revenue. For example, LinkedIn has been profitable since 2006 and gets revenue also from paid services such as job postings and premium subscriptions. Here's an interesting interview with LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman on their latest funding round of $53 million, which was based on a $1 billion valuation. According to this interview, LinkedIn doesn't need the funds it just raised for current operations, but mainly plans to use them to aquire complementary companies/products. http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/06/new-post2.html Social networks that offer real value for organizations and professionals can go beyond relying primarily on ad revenue. For example, LinkedIn has been profitable since 2006 and gets revenue also from paid services such as job postings and premium subscriptions. Here’s an interesting interview with LinkedIn’s founder, Reid Hoffman on their latest funding round of $53 million, which was based on a $1 billion valuation. According to this interview, LinkedIn doesn’t need the funds it just raised for current operations, but mainly plans to use them to aquire complementary companies/products.

http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/06/new-post2.html

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