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Patrick Baynes (born October 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur. He is best known for his early work at LinkedIn and as co-founder of PeopleLinx.〔〔〔 ==Biography== Born in Wausau, Wisconsin, his father became a colonel in the US Army, resulting in the family moving around the United States, including to Chicago and later Atlanta, Georgia.〔〔 After graduating from Alfred University with a BSBA in Marketing, he studied at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrick Baynes )〕〔〔 On returning home to the United States while working for a country club, Baynes watched Google News for a suitable Internet start-up to join.〔 Noticing that LinkedIn was opening offices close to the former PayPal operations in Omaha, Nebraska, close to one of his extended family bases, in 2007 Baynes became company employee No. 162.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrick Baynes )〕 At LinkedIn, Baynes became responsible for envisaging and delivering the company's customer operations and internal training, supporting the network’s now more that 250 million members.〔〔〔〔 While working at LinkedIn together, Baynes and Nathan Egan pitched to LinkedIn's board the idea of offering professional services. After the proposal was turned down, Baynes and Egan co-founded Philadelphia-based PeopleLinx in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrick Baynes )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 With the aim to help large corporate organizations and their employees get the most out of social networks, during the first two years of operations the company offered LinkedIn-focused consulting and training programs.,〔 but the primarily Fortune 500 corporate customers wanted something with scale that would offer continued engagement beyond the training, together with associated metrics of success.〔 The result was the SaaS-based PeopleLinx, the world's first engagement, social selling, and analytics software for social media. Through enabling a company's employees to improve their social media influence,〔 the SaaS enables their employers brand to raise its profile, improve market and customer engagement and there by directly increase revenue and sales.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Educate & Motivate Employees to Use LinkedIn )〕〔 As Head of Partnerships, Baynes was responsible for all client-facing services, partnerships and social sales strategy.〔〔 Having founded and developed the company through financial bootstrapping, in May 2012 state-funded economic-development organization the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania approved a $150,000 investment in the firm. In March 2013, PeopleLinx raised $3.2 million in a series A funding round from both angel investors and investment firms, including: Bala Cynwyd-based Osage Venture Partners; New York-based Greycroft Partners; and Center City-based Mission Operators Group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The story behind our $3.2M seriesA funding )〕 Baynes also serves as advisor to several start-ups and consults with senior executives on business architecture and internet product strategy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrick Baynes )〕 Baynes is a noted speaker on Internet business strategy, go-to-market strategy and strategic consulting;〔 as well as personal strategies for individuals to raise their profile and develop business using social networking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrick Baynes )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Baynes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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