Archive for May, 2009

Joined the 500+ Contacts on LinkedIn

Monday, May 25th, 2009

I have been spending quite sometime on LinkedIn these days – and have been very impressed at the volume of profiles on there.

Growing rapidly, especially with this current economic downtime, LinkedIn now attracts over 40 Million professionals in 200 countries.

Mostly used by web savvy recruiters and business owners, are now using LinkedIn to expand their networking and International appeal. The beauty of LinkedIn is, the more contacts you have, the more you can view specific kind of professionals. Hence, when I had 100 contacts, I might only see around 1000 results for some searches.

Somehow, I have exceeded the 500+ contacts and counting (connect with me on LinkedIn), and now get hundreds of thousands of profiles when I do searches related to current projects I am working on. Brilliant!

Current limit on LinkedIn is 30,000 contacts. I think my target for July 31st 2009, will be 5000 contacts, i.e 20 Million connections in my network. Catch me if you can …

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Just Read ‘The Real Deal’ – James Caan

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Just finished reading The Real Deal, by James Caan. For those of you who dont know, he is more popular cos of his TV role as the most recent dragon in BBC’s Dragon Den.

Jimmy C, as he called himself stylishly built very successful recruitment companies and sold them, raking in millions of pounds, before starting a private equity firm, assist entrepreneurs build successful businesses.

The book, which was his autobiography, was quite a different from the books I have read recently.

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