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BranchOut's story is a brutal lesson about building on someone else's platform. After raising $49 million and growing to 33 million users, Facebook changed its viral channels leading BranchOut to star

BranchOut's professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. Today the $49 million-funded startup is hedging its bets with the launch of Talk.co, a mobile-first web, iOS, and Android me

BranchOut, a startup that launched in July 2010 as a Facebook application for professional networking, has pivoted to be a messaging platform for teams of coworkers. Users are authenticated by thei

<a target="_blank" href="http://branchout.com/">BranchOut,</a> the company that develops a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, has made a key hire today, poaching a Yahoo exec fo

Love it or hate it, your job is a big part of your life. But you probably don't go to LinkedIn everyday. Maybe you only visit a few times a year. <a target="_blank" href="http://branchout.com/">Bra

Facebook moves pretty fast. If you don't attend the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/crunchup-august-capital-party-2012/event-info/">Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp</a>, you could misunderstand it.

<em>"People crave feedback on their professional lives,"</em> say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.identified.com/">Identified</a>, a yo

<a href="http://www.branchout.com">BranchOut</a> is officially going for the big time. The company, which makes a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, is announcing today it has c

At the start of 2012 <a href="http://branchout.com/">BranchOut </a>had just 1 million monthly active users. Then the professional networking app hired a dedicated growth team, launched a mobile web ap

<a href="http://branchout.com/">BranchOut,</a> a professional social network for Facebook, is announcing the launch of <a href="http://branchout.com/businesssolutions/recruiterconnect">RecruiterConnec

<a href="http://branchout.com/">BranchOut,</a> a professional social network for Facebook, is announcing a <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/careerbuilder-partners-with-branchout-to-bri

<em><strong>Editor’s note</strong>: Guest contributor <a href="http://jonbischke.com/" target="_blank">Jon Bischke</a> is a founder of <a href="http://www.rglabsinc.com/" target="_blank">RG Labs

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/branchout-picture.jpeg" class="shot2"><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Professional social network LinkedIn has shut down API access to a number

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/branchout-picture.jpeg" class="shot2"><em>Exclusive</em>: <a href="http://branchout.com/">BranchOut,</a> a professional social network for Fac