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General Information

Websitening.com
Blogblog.ning.com
CategoryNetwork/Hosting
Phone(650) 289-0606
Email
Employees125
Founded10/04
DescriptionSocial network platform

Offices

Palo Alto, USA
735 Emerson St.
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
USA
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People

Gina Bianchini
CEO and Co-Founder
Marc Andreessen
Chairman and Co-Founder
Rachel Masters
VP Strategic Relationships
Diego Doval
CTO
Jay Parikh
SVP Engineering
Jason Rosenthal
SVP Business Operations

Funding

Total$104M
Series A, 2007
Marc Andreessen
Reid Hoffman
Series B, 2007
Marc Andreessen
Reid Hoffman
Series C, 7/07
Legg Mason
$44M
Series D, 4/08
Allen & Company
$60M

Competitors

HiveLive, Grouply, KickApps, CrowdVine, ONEsite, GoingOn, Broadband Mechanics, Groupsite, Cerado, Me, Fifteen Reasons, acomo, Mzinga, Wetpaint, Webjam, GROU.PS, Skalfa, Soceeo, Crowd Factory, Bright Things, SocialGO

Tags

socialnetworks

Ning

Ning is an online platform that gives people the freedom to create their own social networks for anything.

Founders Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini created the company (formerly known as 24 Hour Laundry / 24H Laundry) in October 2004 and released Your Own Social Network for Anything in February 2007.

Ning offers users the ability to create their very own social network with features that are customizable to meet unique specifications. If users have the time and the programming talent, they can build features on their own using Ning APIs. The social networks on Ning run on a programmable platform conforming to a common acceptable usage criteria (since it is a shared platform.) For the less technologically sophisticated, network creators can set up a social network with point and click setup options.

Their business model is based on delivering Google ads (their own ad platform in development) as well as selling add-on services to individual social networks (such as hiding Ning ads and serving up their own Google AdSense or hiding ads all together.)

View a chart that TechCrunch compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this company’s social networking product to others.

Videos

Above:

Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, gives a demonstration of Ning’s service to Robert Scoble

Added: 2/8/08
Above:

Gina Bianchini, gives a run down of Ning.com and its features

Added: 3/1/08
Above:

This video was originally published on Beet.TV

Added: 9/25/08

Products

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Websitening.com
Blogblog.ning.com
StageLive
Launch DateOctober 4, 2007
Tags white-label-social-networking
Ning screenshot
Above: Ning2 Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Comments

Vidgam - May 3, 2009 at 12:49pm
Great concept. I will be creating a network for two reasons. One, because I need to attract certain people, not just a bunch of my-spacers. The other reason why I will be doing it is because I think Gina is beautiful, and maybe she just might join us.
Mephisto - February 26, 2009 at 3:10pm
Oh Lord, Gina's got someone else to give her a pile of money to start\kill another company. I long for the day when to become a CEO you need some kind of success behind you, not just a string of failures and the right *friends*. "Social solved" good lord, could you be a more transparent shill? That's the kind of marketing that drove Harmonic into the dirt.
Bihari - December 19, 2008 at 7:36pm
There are so many of these that I am getting confused. Secondly many of these are not exactly cheap, they do have a pretty hefty price tag attached to it if you want to get rid if their ads.
rodel - October 8, 2008 at 1:56am
ning is increasing the prices of their premium services.. up to $5.. wew! that makes their users more worried..
Jason - October 3, 2008 at 8:12pm
Social solved?? Give it a rest. There hasn't been a problem with social networking. People are using facebook, myspace, hi5, linkedin etc to network (aka meet people they lost touch with or want to build new connections with.) Ning is a niche application that is flat-lining in terms of usage and relevance. BTW, "MyLocator . com" is just another junk Ning network trying to build link quality for SEO and exploiting Crunchbase.
MyLocator.com - September 30, 2008 at 8:32pm
great product. easy to use. affordable. Ning has solved 90% social networking. :) Ning = Social Solved.
Jen - September 25, 2008 at 8:42pm
@Crispy HA! You're right. :) Ning is doing gang-busters and worth over $100M. What do you guess-timate their user population is? They offer custom domains, which aren't counted as 'ning.com' users, so I think it might be upwards of double, like 8M users. They must be more than 41 employees. Seems out of date. From my count on LinkedIn they have churned through over 200+ employees. (Currently 86 full-time employees) I guess employee turnover might be an issue going forward, but the UI design is nice. Go Hui!
Crispy - September 22, 2008 at 10:32pm
Henry, from your comments my guess is that you're not very smart :-)
Henry - September 18, 2008 at 12:12am
Ning barely has 3 million unique users according to the chart above. How can the possibly survive? Looks like traffic is even plateauing based on the Quantcast charts.
Webgistix - July 26, 2008 at 3:11am
I see a lot of upside for Ning in the corporate market.
Joe Putegnat - July 24, 2008 at 10:20am
Gina is Hot
Dirk - July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
Ning is so F'n slow. It looks and feels clunky. I highly doubt this site will catch on.
Adam LaCombe - June 14, 2008 at 12:13pm
I love Ning!! I have been building scripts for Ning for about 5 to 6 months. I love how Ning is so customizable!
Sachi - June 11, 2008 at 11:16pm
Ning support is so futile! They seems to promise so much but when it comes to delivery they just keep quite. We requested the code for adding some more features to it but just donot care to respond. I emailed to Gina Bianchini. Seems they are unable to digest so much response suddently getting from community. Sachi
Rolandixor - May 31, 2008 at 7:32am
hehem... lol. The 1st paragraph is a bit confusing. The say Ning attempts? to offer?! Ning provides that. thankyou... -I don't work for Ning, but I'm a stalwart user...
marko - May 8, 2008 at 6:14am
i'd go for private-label community script anyday. with ing your site has no exit luck. boonex is way better.
di - wrong - April 23, 2008 at 3:51pm
Sadly di is wrong. "An ning" is a nice word that means peaceful, tranquil, calm, composed, "free from worry", "public peace", tranquility, good health, well-being, or welfare in Chinese and Korean. The character 'ning' http://www.orientaloutpost.com/c/kp4/23527.gif
di - February 24, 2008 at 12:54am
um, sorry, but 'ning' is not a chinese word/phrase. 'peace' is 'ping an', not ning. there is no 'ng' sound in chinese, it exists only in some dialects of chinese.
Bruno - September 12, 2007 at 2:27am
You can view Ning's CEO Gina Bianchini video interview here: http://us.intruders.tv/Gina-Bianchini-shows-off-Ning-com_a168.html
driveby - August 23, 2007 at 5:32am
QUite the thing, this Ning ;)
jansegers - July 28, 2007 at 5:49am
Thanks for clarifying the mystery about the ning company name. Ning.com is becoming the basis of a new layer of the webostructure. A wiki feature willbe added soon. I belief its potential is vast...

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