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LinkedIn has published its third annual list of the top ten startups (fewer than 500 employees) in Silicon Valley most attractive to IT professionals, based on analysis of views and follows of company Linkedin pages, and pages of company employees, made by site members residing in the USA or Canada during the past year.
This year's top ten were Lytro (plenoptic cameras), Theranos (fingerstick blood tests), Fitbit (wearable fitness trackers), Coursera (online learning), Minted (greeting cards and wedding invitations), Wealthfront (investment management for individuals), Bromium (hypervisor-based security software), Twilio (cloud-based telephony), Egnyte (enterprise file storage), and Leap Motion (gesture user interface).
fyamuse: the LinkedIn blogger coaxed the honorees to choose theme songs, each of which are linked in TFA to YouTube videos.
Only one of the top ten (Coursera) was a repeat from last year's list. So what happened to the others? The answer is pretty impressive: three of the ten went public, while six others now have valuations between 1 and 10 billion USD.
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Monday October 06 2014, @11:04AM
The flaw I see in using LinkedIn page hits to determine top talent is that top talent is not going to invest significant time at LinkedIn because they're too busy. Top talent are the people actually creating new software and hardware. I'd go so far as to say the more top-talent level someone is, the less time the person has to waste on LinkedIn. So this methodology is like finding the best investors by looking at lottery ticket buyers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @12:56PM
I'd say it's more like determining the popularity of a programming language by studying clickthru numbers at StackOverflow. The majority of programmers probably don't hang out there, but still, they might read pages on a semi-regular basis as a result of Google searches.