• $45 LinkedIn’s price per share when it launched its IPO this morning
• $83 the company’s price per share now — that’s right, it nearly doubled in price
• $352M the amount the company has earned from its IPO today source

• » A really impressive start for social media: LinkedIn, the first social media company on the stock market, sets the stage for what could be an impressive transition from startup to stock for many social sites. Facebook’s far larger than LinkedIn, meaning that this may be the floor level for what the ubiquitous social site could expect when Mark Zuckerberg finally decides to go IPO.

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