The founder of the Ning social networking platform and MightyBell offers candid advice about failure.
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Facebook has become the undisputed king of social networking, serving almost 1 billion active users and valued at over $100 billion. Even with this incredible rise, Mark Zuckerberg and many others believe we’re still at the beginning of the social …
Female-focused media and advertising company Glam Media may soon file to go public.
If so, it will join the ranks of Internet companies hitting the trading floor, such as Jive, Zynga and (earlier this year) LinkedIn.
According to Bloomberg‘s sources, …
Glam Media announced today that it has hired 16-year Apple veteran Jeanne Seeley as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president, a move that likely positions the company for a public offering. Seeley starts work today.
Samir Arora, …
Glam Media, a content and media company focused on women but with increasing ambition, has acquired Ning, a web service that lets people build their own social networks. The purchase price was undisclosed, but the deal is well below Ning’s …
Gina Bianchini knows a little bit about social apps.
After serving as chief executive officer and co-founding build-your-own-social-network company Ning, Bianchini joined storied venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz as entrepreneur in residence. That was until she started work on Mightybell, an …
Build-your-own-social-network company Ning announced today that it is adding Aviary, a photo-editing tool that works inside a social network’s web browser, to its social networks.
That gives social networks built on Ning a one-up over sites that are built around …
