It was pretty awful. You want to build a Ning for businesses? Since you don't sound like an engineer, here's what I would suggest you do. Pay a designer 500$

It was pretty awful. You want to build a Ning for businesses? Since you don't sound like an engineer, here's what I would suggest you do. Pay a designer 500$ for mockups, then go sell it to 10 businesses at $10k a pop, and if you can get contracts signed, build the product with that cash. Your description above sounds out of focus, start with one thing, do one thing and do it really well. If you are an engineer, build a prototype - what are you waiting for?