LinkedIn Corporation

A LinkedIn Corporation is an American multi-national corporation that ...

• Context:
  • It can have a Corporate Vision of: Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce
  • It can have a Corporate Mission of: Connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful
  • It can manage the LinkedIn Service.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • facebook Coorporation.
• See: LinkedIn Service.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#History Retrieved:2015-9-8.
  • LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, previously a Yahoo! Inc. executive. The company was founded by Reid Hoffman and founding team members from PayPal and Socialnet.com (Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, and Chris Saccheri).

    Founder Reid Hoffman, previously CEO of LinkedIn, is now Chairman of the Board. LinkedIn is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Omaha, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Milan, Munich, Madrid,Stockholm, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, India and Dubai. LinkedIn has more than 7,600 full-time employees with offices in 30 cities around the world. LinkedIn started off 2012 with about 2,100 full-time employees worldwide, up from around 1,000 at the beginning of 2011 and about 500 at the beginning of 2010. It is funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund. LinkedIn reached profitability in March 2006. Through January 2011, the company had received a total of $103 million of investment. In late 2003, Sequoia Capital led the Series A investment in the company. In June 2008, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and other venture capital firms purchased a 5% stake in the company for $53 million, giving the company a post-money valuation of approximately $1 billion. In 2010, LinkedIn opened an International Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, received a $20 million investment from Tiger Global Management LLC at a valuation of approximately $2 billion, and announced its first acquisition, Mspoke, and improved its 1% premium subscription ratio. In October of that year Silicon Valley Insider ranked the company No. 10 on its Top 100 List of most valuable start ups. By December, the company was valued at $1.575 billion in private markets.

2012

• https://linkedin.com/pulse/20121029044359-22330283-to-manage-hyper-growth-get-your-launch-trajectory-right
  • QUOTE:

    Vision - The dream; a team's true north. Primary objective is to inspire and create a shared sense of purpose throughout the company.
    Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce

    Mission - Overarching objective of the organization; should be measurable, achievable, and ideally inspirational. Should not be used synonymously with a vision statement. A great mission statement is brief, easy to remember, minimizes the use of the word "and" (to prevent a laundry list), shouldn't require follow-up clarifying questions when first presented, and ideally proves to be uniquely identifiable to the company, i.e. wouldn't be confused for another company's mission.
    Connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful

    Strategy - How a company navigates its competitive landscape (and the dynamics most heavily influencing that landscape, e.g. technology) to achieve its objectives. Not to be confused with tactics, which are the specific steps put into place to manifest the strategy. Can also state strategy as a series of strategic objectives to help make it more actionable. Requires clear understanding and definition of an organization's strengths and competitive advantages.

    1. To be the professional profile of record
    2. To be the essential source of professional insights
    3. To work everywhere our members work

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