Comments on: Xing’s CEO Lars Hinrichs Steps Down, Denies LinkedIn Is Getting Any “Real Traction” In Europe

By: Bomber Wobbler

Bomber Wobbler — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:36:16 +0000

I agree Peters, Xing is great.

By: TopBlogs » Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US?

TopBlogs » Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US? — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:46:58 +0000

[...] newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt published an interview [GER] with Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (who recently replaced founder Lars Hinrichs), and he revealed a couple of interesting tidbits of information about the future direction of his [...]

By: Xing To Give Up China And prepare Way For LinkedIn In The US? | Cellphone Ultra

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:07:55 +0000

[...] newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt published an interview [GER] with Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (who recently replaced founder Lars Hinrichs), and he revealed a couple of interesting tidbits of data about the future direction of his company [...]

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:58:06 +0000

By: Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US?

Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US? — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:45:15 +0000

By: LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing

LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:42:51 +0000

[...] November Xing today announced its CEO Lars Hinrichs would step down and be replaced by Ebay Germany head Stefan Gross-Selbeck. [...]

By: European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian (Update: For $7.5 Million) | code.ernewein.org

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:37 +0000

[...] founded the company in 2003 and led it to an IPO three years later at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, stepping down. He still got to announce the news, though: Why do we think that socialmedian is a perfect fit for [...]

By: XING koupil Socialmedian z New Yorku za 7,5 mil. USD

XING koupil Socialmedian z New Yorku za 7,5 mil. USD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:55:18 +0000

[...] integraci byznys zpravodajství do naší sítě” (Hinrichse 15. ledna 2009 v pozici CEO nahradí hlava Ebay Německo, Stefan [...]

By: European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian (Update: For $7.5 Million) | Fidicaro.net

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:17:38 +0000

By: European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian

European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:10:26 +0000

[...] founded the company in 2003 and led it to an IPO three years later at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, stepping down. CrunchBase Information XING Information provided by CrunchBase CrunchBase Information [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:46:59 +0000

For France, Viadeo is by far the most interestng site. They overtook LinkedIn ages ago, many more people, more user-friendly, more services… Xing is nowhere in France

By: Cezar Maroti

Cezar Maroti — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:29:54 +0000

I think that there are 510,000 premium members but my estimate is that jut 50-75% of them pay the fee. Some of them are receiving premium membership for free for inviting other people to Xing.

By: Mariéme Jamme

Mariéme Jamme — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:31:28 +0000

I agree Ian. As a Xing Premium member, LI premium member, I can make a clear difference between the 2.

Best Regards

Marieme

By: Mariéme Jamme

Mariéme Jamme — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:24:49 +0000

Totally agree Stefan!
LinkedIn works for me in the USA, and Xing in Germany.
I will have a look at your site.
Great point.

Best Regards

Mariéme

By: Mariéme Jamme

Mariéme Jamme — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:19:43 +0000

I agree Peters, Xing is great. Lars has made a great decisions. Sometimes strategies needs to change for a sustainable better result.

Best Regards

Marieme

By: LinkedIn vs. Xing (or, what is Xing.com??) | I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???

LinkedIn vs. Xing (or, what is Xing.com??) | I'm On LinkedIn - Now What??? — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:17:05 +0000

[...] has a great post on Xing… I get asked all the time about Xing… what is it, should you be on it, [...]

By: Stefan Menden

Stefan Menden — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:35:22 +0000

I am a paying XING member and the site is so much better than LinkedIn. I basicaly use LinkedIn and facebook for international and XING for mainly German contacts. Living in London with business in Germany and around the world, I have to jump between these two silos everyday. The XING business tools have been extremely useful to my company in Germany (www.squeaker.net – a career network) in finding employees, getting introductions, finding business partners etc. I wished LinkedIn were anywhere near that superb experience.

Plus: Monetization has been on the top of the list for XING, and they done well. Will LinkedIn ever find a buyer at a valuation of 1bn?

True, XING will face an uphill battle to grow internationally. Nearly impossible. I wished more of my international contacts would use XING, as it is simply better.

By: Ravi Kannan

Ravi Kannan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:15:41 +0000

I agree with you. They have been a lot behind in monetizing their 30 million users. They have started pushing Advertising into your LinkedIn inbox now. Soon it will become like your email inbox, littered with spam. Don’t like it at all.

http://www.jobsbyref.com

By: Xing’s CEO Lars Hinrichs Steps Down, Denies LinkedIn Is Getting Any “Real Traction” In Europe « LayoffBlog.com

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:01:08 +0000

[...] @ 12:00 pm Tags: Ebay, Hinrichs steps down, Layoffs in Germany, Linkedin, Xing layoff According to Techcrunch: “Germany-based business networking service Xing today announced its CEO Lars Hinrichs will [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:00:58 +0000

That’s funny, I just googled the incoming ceo’s name and top of the list was his linkedin profile.

By: peters

peters — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:01:29 +0000

Xing is simply an unbelievable success story! What other startup can say to generate 40% EBIT margin and generated over the last years sustainable profit. From the beginning Lars build a Social Network based on added value and charged for it. This needs guts – and he has it. Lars congratulation and lots of success in your future projects.

By: Harald

Harald — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:59:54 +0000

I’m on both Xing (paying) and LinkedIN. If you want to do business in Germany (partially Europe) you need to be on Xing. It is the clear #1 of choice with a much broader set of functionalities than LinkedIN. Also, LinkedIN (at least for me) – is so damn slow here & the look & feel not really made for Europe
I assume, indeed it will be difficult for LinkedIN to win the community over here.

By: Xing.com CEO Step Down | FuckedStartups

Xing.com CEO Step Down | FuckedStartups — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:46:44 +0000

[...] reports it (here) Germany-based business networking service Xing today announced its CEO Lars Hinrichs will step [...]

By: Lars steps down as Xing’s CEO | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:43:29 +0000

[...] years after finding Xing, Germany’s answer to LinkedIn, its CEO, Lars Hinrichs will leave his position to be taken up by Stefan Gross-Selbeck. The reason for his withdrawal is unknown and [...]

By: Ralf Lippold

Ralf Lippold — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:06:33 +0000

I fully agree on the later, it really is about value adding connections:-))

Best

Ralf