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Venture Capital: Risk Capital_Angel, Venture, Sovereign Wealth Investor Companies & Organizations
*Portfolio Companies: Benchmark
Friendster
Parents
*Portfolio Companies: Benchmark
*Portfolio Companies: Founders Fund (Peter Thiel)
*Portfolio Companies: Kleiner Perkins
Battery Ventures
Consolidators: Social Network, Media, Web & Enterprise 2.0 Companies
DAG Ventures
WatchList: Closing, Closed, Inactive, Liquidation, Dissolution or Out of Business
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"A System, Method and Apparatus for Connecting Users in an Online Computer System Based on Their Relationships within Social Net
"Method of Inducing Content Uploads in a Social Network"
"System and Method for Managing Connections in an Online Social Network"
*Key People: Friendster
28,000,000 million members
After the KPR recapitalization, the company replaced most of its engineering team and has improved page-loading times from 40 se
Allows you to stay connected to friends, make new friends, share information, organize activities, and reconnect with lost frien
Circle of Friends Patent
David Jones, vice president of marketing at Friendster
Employees: 30 (2006)
Friendster announced it was awarded a third U.S. Patent titled, "System and Method for Managing Connections in an Online Social
Friendster is a free online social networking service
Friendster:Red Herring Patent Article
Google offered $30,000,000 to buy out Friendster in 2003, but they were turned down
It has also been criticized for lacking the openness and cultural tie-ins of MySpace
Kleiner Perkins had encouraged Friendster to file patents when it funded the company in 2003. Another eleven patents are in the
Mountain View, California
Patent Pending
Specifics disclosed in the patent include adding friends, personalizing your profile through arranging, ordering and classifying
System and Method Patents
The patent, granted on March 6, 2007, describes a technology that allows members of a social network to manage their connections
Third in a growing portfolio of patents granted to Friendster, highlighting the company's innovation in online social networking
Through the end of 2004 and 2005, the site suffered from slow load times, driving many users away.
U.S. Patent No. 7,188,153 B2
U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent No. 7,188,153 B2
U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent No. 7069308
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"Fast Second", Constatine Markides & Paul Geroski, (2005), John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
BioSpace
itLinkz
Jigsaw Data Corporation
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