In China, guanxi (relationships) means everything, especially for climbing your way up the social career ladder. That’s why any service that gives you the extra edge will be super valuable. Back in June, we interviewed Derek Ling, CEO and Founder of one of the leading online professional social networking services in China, Tianji.com. The Chinese […]
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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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Ushi – the making Chinese Linkedin
Recently, I talked to Dominic Penaloza, CEO of Ushi, whom my partner, Technode’s Lu Gang, interviewed in February. Within three months, Ushi has progressed quite a lot. It doubled its number of members, to 200,000. These includes 12,000 CEO and 5,000 CTO. 75% of VC active in China are also in Ushi’s network. (Entrepreneurs looking for funding probably […]
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How 5 Professional Social Networks in China Compare
We’ve now covered all the main professional social networks in China. This space in China is gaining a lot of attention due to Linkedin’s recent IPO and valuation of US$4.25bn. Here are some of the challenges we’ve learnt about building professional SNSs: Finding users As Sherman just posted, China only opened up to economic reform […]
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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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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 […]
