Bill Gates’ first post on LinkedIn: ’3 things I’ve learned from Warren Buffett’

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Learning the game of bridge isn’t the only thing Warren Buffet has taught Bill Gates. In Gates’ first-ever post on LinkedIn titled “Three Things I’ve Learned from Warren Buffett,” the Microsoft co-founder sheds light on the lessons he’s gleaned from his good friend. Gates writes about the first time he met Buffett over a dinner his mother… Read More…

Startup lesson #2: Don’t ignore the enablers

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[Editor's note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire, starting yesterday with their thoughts about minimum viable products. In part two, they'll talk about how they determined product features. Part three, set to run... Read More…

Startup lesson #1: Reid Hoffman is wrong

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[Editor's note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire, starting today with their thoughts about minimum viable products. In part two, they'll talk about how they determined product features. Part three, set to... Read More…

Nerd Notes: Gay marriage and sushi, printable guns, and a 5-year-old’s $2,500 iPad spending spree

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Editor’s Note: Nerd Notes is GeekWire’s roundup of random geekiness from around the globe. National Day of Unplugging (NDU): Beginning tonight at sunset, and ending 24 hours later, citizens across the nation are encouraged to unplug from all media. Even GeekWire’s John Cook is giving it a shot. Participants are asked to share their reasons for… Read More…

Instagram hits 100M user mark 28 months after launch

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Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million user mark. Co-founder Kevin Systrom penned a blog post on the milestone, thanking users and writing about Instagram’s early days inside a frigid San Francisco office when he and… Read More…

LinkedIn reaches 200 million user milestone, adding two new users per second

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Some numbers out of the LinkedIn camp today highlight how successful the social network is doing. The company has reached the 200 million user milestone across more than 200 countries and 19 languages. It is adding new users at a rate of two per second, which equals 172,800 registrations per day. “This milestone is more than… Read More…

Twitter reaches 200M monthly active users, up 42 percent in 9 months

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Some social media companies rise and fall quickly. Twitter, however, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. The company used its own account this morning to announce that there are more than 200 million active Twitter users each month. There are now more than 200M monthly active @twitter users. You are the pulse of the… Read More…

REI, LinkedIn land in top 10 places for work-life balance; Facebook falls off

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When employers dangle salaries and signing bonuses and Justin Bieber songs in front of prospective employees, they might just want to consider how well they’re doing on one more thing: work-life balance. These top 25 companies in 2012 must be doing something right. Jobs and workplace site glassdoor.com just released its cumulative study of employee… Read More…

Dear Alley Insider: What’s Zillow, chopped liver?

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I’m a big fan of Alley Insider’s Chart of the Day service in which the online news publication puts relevant news in chart form. But their latest effort left me scratching my head. What grabbed my attention was the title of the post: “LinkedIn Is The Only Consumer Tech IPO That’s Doing Well.” Really? I am… Read More…

LinkedOut? Twitter ends LinkedIn content sharing

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It appears that the content-sharing partnership forged by Twitter and LinkedIn in 2009 — like “peanut butter and chocolate,” according to LinkedIn’s blog post at the time — is no more. LinkedIn informed its users in an email message this afternoon, “Twitter recently evolved its strategy and this will result in a change to the way… Read More…

LinkedIn: No accounts hacked as result of stolen passwords

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LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were illegally obtained and posted on a Russian Web site. According to a blog post from LinkedIn’s Vicente Silveira the company has received no reports that member accounts have been breached as a result of the… Read More…

LinkedIn’s new app is a Windows Phone showcase

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LinkedIn finally released its first official app for Windows Phone this week. It’s an important addition to Microsoft’s catalog of apps, particularly as the Redmond company tries to make inroads with business users. More than that, it’s a well-designed app that is better, in some ways, than its counterparts on iPhone and Android. The Windows… Read More…

LinkedIn, Zillow among the top IPOs of a tough 2011

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It was shaping up to be a solid year for initial public offerings. But then things hit a wall in August and September, with IPO Dashboards reporting just five IPOs during the two-month period. Now, things are heating up again, though with the holidays around the corner it’s unlikely. But, for the most part, it’s still… Read More…

Internet ‘bubbles’ compared: This time, there’s revenue

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There’s been a lot of chatter in recent months about whether the valuations of Internet companies are out of whack. I tend to agree with those observers who say things are different than the boom times of the late 90s, not only due to the fact that the new-generation of Internet companies have real revenue… Read More…

Do you have the startup DNA?

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Let’s face it, you gotta be a little off kilter to take the entrepreneurial plunge. But what is the the actual makeup of entrepreneurs? LinkedIn takes a look today, using data collected from those who’ve identified themselves as a co-founder or founder at U.S. based companies since 2000. LinkedIn discovered that some companies and universities… Read More…

Netflix for Kids, LinkedIn apps, and other new stuff to try

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Interesting new releases and downloads catching our attention today …  Netflix rolled out a new section of its website called “Just for Kids” today, offering a simplified menu of streaming movies and TV shows for children 12 and under. The company says it worked with non-profit Common Sense Media on the project. It’s available initially… Read More…

Poll: Which tech giant would you most like to have headquartered in Seattle?

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Silicon Valley companies have been flocking to Seattle in recent months, coming here (not for the nice weather obviously) but a desire to tap into the region’s robust technical talent. I’ve taken some heat in the GeekWire comment threads for pointing out that our region needs a Facebook, Twitter or Zynga-style company to emerge in… Read More…

Sign of the apocalypse: Skype, LinkedIn and other changes in the ‘geosocial universe’

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There have been some shifts in the “geosocial universe” in recent days, with LinkedIn going public and Microsoft gobbling up Skype. (Maybe this apocalypse thing really is gonna happen). The interactive agency JESS3 tries to make sense of things, putting some of the big and small planets in alignment. One interesting thing about the infographic below… Read More…

LinkedIn’s spectacular IPO: The pros and cons

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LinkedIn’s stock more than doubled in its stock market debut Thursday, rising from the $45 offering price to a high of $122 before closing the day at $94.25. It starts its second day of trading as a public company with a market value of $8.9 billion — making it bigger than Clearwire, RealNetworks, Concur Technologies and… Read More…

LinkedIn’s red hot IPO sparks talk of a bubble: Would you buy at $85 per share?

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Netscape’s 1995 IPO was the start of what many considered the beginning of the Internet boom. Did LinkedIn just create the 2011 equivalent? The 8-year-old social networking giant today priced its initial public offering at $45 per share, with shares nearly doubling in the open market to more than $85 in early trading. That gives the… Read More…