Investing in Linked In and some explosive growth numbers.

Last week I had another great dinner in San Francisco with Reid Hoffman, founder of Linked In. Reid is one of the most impressive and visionary friends I know.I am very proud to join its investors list. Reid has secured Series A financing of $4.7 million in November last year. The investment was led by Sequoia Capital, the venture investors behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. A round with business angels that I participated in will be announced within a few weeks.[ Loic Le Meur Blog]

We have just started using Linked In to try getting in touch with people who might be interested in K-Collector. It's too early to say if it's going to work, it definetly looks promising (I'd be happy to be a satisfied testimonial ;-).

After having used the Linked In site quite heavily for a few days we can say that there are several features we would like to see developed on Linked In (starting with a bunch of RSS-based ones). I'm ready to pay for these additional features. Actually I might even pay for the tools as they are today if some restrictions would be removed.

Loic is listing some impressive numbers, the Linked In network is definetly getting huge, I wonder what is the critical mass they are trying to reach before turning it in a business.