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Show HN: Let's all connect on LinkedIn
- hornbaker 15y agoAs a data point, I had 272 connections on LinkedIn before this started. I'm now up to 283, and will update after this is done.
- hornbaker 15y agoI thought it'd be fun to see how many members we can mutally connect on LinkedIn, and help each other grow our professional networks. I'm an EIR at Sequoia Capital, and will connect to everyone on the list. I'm open to chat or meet and answer any questions you may have about Sequoia or Silicon Valley VC in general. The results will be displayed, but not editable, at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZnczJFejNGSFdzOTlsckFDbTNOQ3c#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZ... NOTE TO SPAMMERS: I'm seeding the list with a honeypot email, and anyone caught spamming the list will be publicly shamed.
- bioinformatics 15y agoI entered my HN username wrong, anyway to change it to the right one?
- pedalpete 15y agoanybody else having trouble updating the spreadsheet? is there a limit to the number of people who can be editing at once?
- hornbaker 15y agoThe spreadsheet isn't editable, only viewable. It takes input from the form, linked in the title of this post.
- code177 15y agoGreat idea, this is the sort of thing that makes YC powerful.
- sudobear 15y agoExcellent. Thanks for doing this!
- jf271 15y agoYes, Thank you for doing this.
- dr_win 15y agopeople with URLs like http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=XXXX http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=XXXX do it wrong. Links like these offer me only to send InMail or connect through connections. You have to paste your custom profile url: http://www.linkedin.com/in/YYYY http://www.linkedin.com/in/YYYY
- hornbaker 15y agoThanks, I made a note to that effect on the form. If anyone wants me to edit their url in the spreadsheet, please post the new linkedin url here.
- holycrab 15y ago#44 Can you fix the email username and domain columns for me. Please also read my comment above for connecting all profiles at 1 time. This might be useful if you include this on the page.
- hornbaker 15y agoDone and done, thanks!
- pedalpete 15y ago#39, my new linkedin url is http://www.linkedin.com/in/pedalpete http://www.linkedin.com/in/pedalpete thanks
- hornbaker 15y agoDone.
- holycrab 15y agoInstead of adding people 1 by 1 from their profile connect button, you can send bulk connect message to more than 1 email addresses. Linkedin -> Contacts -> Add Contact ->Enter Email Addresses Dont forget to add me to your Linkedin connectioons. I am number 44 on the list.
- ilanco 15y agoGreat idea, for me Google+ wouldn't have made any sense without the same initiative.
- doug1001 15y agoexcellent idea--appreciate your initiative and efforts. if i can help, please LMK. note: to get a custom linkedin url (as mentioned in the OP), it takes like 15 seconds, just to to settings (upper right hand corner drop-down when you click your name).
- Bogdanp 15y agoTo get the list of emails easily save the spreadsheet as a tsv and then run the following command on a UNIX system (replace hn.tsv with the name of the file that you just saved): tail +5 hn.tsv | awk '{print $5"@"$6}' | sort -u