How Mark Kvamme found Ross Levinsohn through LinkedIn
Here’s a LinkedIn user best practice to end the week with. You’ve probably seen a lot of our past users describe their Aha moments – whether it be finding a $1M client or creating an “accidental” global enterprise – but millions of other users find their Aha moments through simple mutual introductions that LinkedIn affords on a daily basis.
This week, we shine the spotlight on Mark Kvamme (partner at Sequoia capital, one of LinkedIn’s early institutional investors), who’s also on LinkedIn’s board of directors. Mark talks of his original Aha moment on LinkedIn – finding and connecting with Ross Levinsohn through a mutual connection, Marc Andreessen.
Also, the biggest priority (and, challenge) for entrepreneurs is finding the right talent for their companies. LinkedIn can be a boon for start ups since it enables you to find the right candidates to lead various disciplines in your company through the power of a mutual introduction.
2 Quick Tips from Mark Kvamme
1. How to ask for a mutual introduction on LinkedIn
1. Go to the profile of Person A
2. Click “Send a message”
3. Click the link “Include others on this message”
4. Type in the name of Person B
5. Write my message
Learn more here
Find the right candidates in your Address book
2. How to search like a Pro on LinkedIn
1. Jump right into advanced search
2. The Magic of Boolean Search: AND, OR, NOT
3. Leverage the sorting functions
Learn more here
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Jean Gogolin November 15th, 2008
Would that be THE Marc Andreesen? The s/w genius?
Russell Cohen December 10th, 2008
Which is the latest profile?
If I find more than one entry for the same person, how do I know which is the latest profile for him/her? I don’t want to have to spam him/her by means of a “Send InMail” to the Inbox for each profile.
Would it not be possible to show the “Date Added” or “Date Last Updated” for each profile or public profile? Precisely because there are multiple profiles, each one is listed as “Currently holds this position”, which is no help at all!
p.s. I did attempt to submit this question by means of your “Help improve LinkedIn. Send us your feedback.” Function, but it keeps coming up with the following error message:
“An email address must be unique across the Email Address, Email Alt 1, and Email Alt 2 fields.”
This is a rather strange error message seeing as only 1 e-mail address is called for!
Mario Sundar December 10th, 2008
Hey Russell,
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve forwarded this information to the appropriate product manager. I’ve also notified them of the feedback error message.
Mario from LinkedIn
Philip Franckel July 24th, 2009
I do not find LinkedIn to be easy to use.
I have been unable to upload a photo to my profile. I am trying to upload a .jpg which is 191 x 135 and 20.8 KB, but I keep getting the error message “There was a problem uploading your photo.” It says that there was an unspecified problem.
When I tried to contact customer support, I am unable to send an e-mail because I receive the following error “An email address must be unique across the Email Address, Email Alt 1, and Email Alt 2 fields.”
I am rather busy running a law practice and maintaining approximately 40 websites, so problems like this make me want to simply close my account. It’s not worth the aggravation.
Philip Franckel July 24th, 2009
I forgot to mention that this is not the first time I tried to contact customer service. I tried a long time ago and received the same error message “An email address must be unique across the Email Address, Email Alt 1, and Email Alt 2 fields.” I am amazed that this has never been fixed and continues to be a problem after so long.