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[Posted on April 9, 2007 - 2:12 PM]

LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman is using his company's question and answer service to boost deal flow. The busy angel investor posted a question on LinkedIn's Answers service last week wondering "What are the three hottest companies in Silicon Valley currently?" Something must be in the air because Matt Marshall of VentureBeat asked his readers the same question a few days before.

The responses show that after Facebook, there really is no consensus answer. NetSuite, Linden Research, LinkedIn, AdMob, Digg, NanoSolar and Tesla received multiple nominations. Bebo, AdBrite and Aggregate Knowledge, companies I think are building fast growing, profitable businesses, each received a mention. One I didn't see in the response section yet that I think holds tremendous potential is TechMeme.

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Comments
From: Mike Olaf,

Doh, how about Technorati? Their numbers are astonishing!


From: Josh Jaffe,

I'm not so sure Technorati's revenue numbers are astonishing, Mike.

But, one growing company I did forget to mention is Six Apart.


From: Mahesh,

I was looking for an Indian site that can combine news, movies, cricket and also social networking aspects such as user points, forums, blogs, private messages etc. I stumbled upon http://www.hangoutwith.com and found to be great! Hangoutwith.com is a good social networking site especially for Indians and it is much cleaner than other sites such as orkut, tagged etc. It has news,videos,cricket news/videos,bollywood news/videos and much more!

Give it a spin!


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