A professional social network like LinkedIn is clearly valuable. Its market cap is an impressive US$9 Billion and last traded at US$92. Yesterday, news broke out that LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman met with major internet companies in China to discuss plans to enter China in a more measured way. More specifically Hoffman met with search […]
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Tianji, the 6 Million-Users Professional Social Network In China – Part I
Founded in 2005, Beijing based Tianji is one of the first to do Linkedin type professional SNS in China. Currently, it has 6 million members in the country and is adding 200,000 more a month. Tianji’s founder and CEO Derek Ling was a former VP in Sina when it had just 20 person in the U.S. He […]
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Tianji CEO Says It Is the Best Professional Social Network in China – Interview Part II
In the last part of our interview with Derek Ling, CEO of Tianji, he said professional SNS grows slowly in China because the Linkedin model does not fit China’s environment. In Linkedin, people frequently get requests like ‘I need this and this,” or “I need to hire such and such”. However, in China, it will be […]
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How to Run the Professional Social Network in China, Interview with Co-founders of UShi.cn
We’ve been trying Professional Social Network in China for a couple of times. The copycats or Linkedin-likers failed: Linkist is dead; Wealink is running still but the team has shrinked to <10 people; Tianji used to claim 3millions users and now partners with a French professional social network Viadeo, which I don’t know what is […]
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Short of Business Professionals, Why LinkedIn Does Not Work in China
Why LinkedIn does not work in China? This is one of the hottest questions being discussed recently in China because Linkedin went to IPO and apparently the massive Chinese market has no real professional social networks yet. A hedge fund manager recently gave me a very interesting point of view, which I also agreed. He […]
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Tianji.com, The First Chinese Social Networks On OpenSocial Partners List
I have been wondering who would be the first OpenSocial partner in China for days. I learned from Isaac Mao that Wealink.com, the Chinese Linkedin would support OpenID and was also considering OpenSocial; Bruce Wang, CTO of Linkist.com which is another popular Social Networks talked with me in Beijing two weeks ago, he also said […]
