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5 Links: Reid Hoffman is Your New Entrepreneurial Role Model

So I could tumbl just about every post on PandoDaily from their interview with Reid Hoffman, because they’re all great, but instead of doing that, I’ll just recommend you go read them yourself. None of them are very long and some of them have video. 

Reid Hoffman: On Knowing What Your Product Isn’t 

Hoffman: Many People Still Don’t Know How or Why to Use LinkedIn 

Reid Hoffman: Entrepreneurs Need Optimism, Even When “Assembling the Plane on the Way Down” 

Reid Hoffman on Paypal: We Didn’t Know What We Were Doing, But We Learned 

Reid Hoffman: Walks, Talks, and Bridging Failure 

Reid Hoffman: “I’m Motivated By How I’ll Change the World”

Reid is such a fascinating person to me. He’s been extremely successful but he’s not your stereotypical startup entrepreneur, but he’s been far more successful than your typical startup entrepreneur. 

The past year has been a massive one for Hoffman. He’s been involved in five companies that have gone public, including behemoths Groupon, Facebook, and LinkedIn. He’s acquired loads of publicity from the past year of successes, but for Hoffman says it’s about “proof of theory”. Hoffman says he’s motivated by thoughts on how the world works, how people work, and how entrepreneurship works – and from those factors he wants to discover truth.


How To Unlink LinkedIn Connections

If you’re like me you have been pretty liberal with who you link to on LinkedIn. I love LinkedIn and use it probably everyday but now that the service is starting to get more and more use it’s finally starting to attract spammers. I don’t think it get’s many fake account spammers like Twitter or Tumblr but it’s getting lots of pushy, spammy sales people. 

Until recently I didn’t know how to unconnect with these people. LinkedIn doesn’t make it too obvious because it’s in their best interest for you to have more connections. This is true of any social network. Unlike Facebook, instead of going to the persons profile to unfriend them you actually go to your contacts page and then in the upper right choose remove connections. 

It’s not too hard but it’s not too obvious either.