Show HN: Let's all connect on LinkedIn

[hornbaker]

I 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=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZ...

NOTE TO SPAMMERS: I'm seeding the list with a honeypot email, and anyone caught spamming the list will be publicly shamed.

[bioinformatics]

I entered my HN username wrong, anyway to change it to the right one?

[holycrab]

Instead 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.

[Bogdanp]

To 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

[dr_win]

people with URLs like 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

[hornbaker]

Thanks, 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.

[hornbaker]

As 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.

[doug1001]

excellent 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).

[ilanco]

Great idea, for me Google+ wouldn't have made any sense without the same initiative.

[code177]

Great idea, this is the sort of thing that makes YC powerful.

[pedalpete]

anybody else having trouble updating the spreadsheet? is there a limit to the number of people who can be editing at once?

[hornbaker]

The spreadsheet isn't editable, only viewable. It takes input from the form, linked in the title of this post.

[sudobear]

Excellent. Thanks for doing this!

[jf271]

Yes, Thank you for doing this.