‘3 Strategies That Helped LinkedIn Dominate Professional Networking’ – ‘Mashable’

Erica Swallow says, “Conceived during the summer of 2002 and launched in May 2003, LinkedIn now boasts 238 million users and has made great strides to become the world’s largest professional network in its decade of existence.

We spoke with Allen Blue, LinkedIn’s co-founder and vice president of product management, to learn about the company’s early product development, and specifically its thoughts on scaling.

In short, companies that successfully scale have three things in common“.