http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080805/friendster-the-orkut-of-asia/ by John Paczkowski Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:28:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080805/friendster-the-orkut-of-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-1729 facebookads101.com - Friendster: The Orkut of Asia Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:06:39 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2957#comment-1729 [...] Excerpted from:Friendster: The Orkut of Asia [...] [...] Excerpted from:Friendster: The Orkut of Asia [...]

]]> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080805/friendster-the-orkut-of-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-1725 Sam Harrison Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:04:22 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2957#comment-1725 should read "not to sell to Google" should read “not to sell to Google”

]]> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080805/friendster-the-orkut-of-asia/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Sam Harrison Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:03:53 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2957#comment-1724 friendster would have been the orkut of orkut if kleiner perkins and sequoia capital hadn't convinced the founder NOT to see to Google, pre-IPO... both john doerr and michael moritz thought friendster would be worth more and could possibly ipo back in 2003/04. those were the days when freinster was the 'myspace' of the day, with everyone using it, from college students to presidential candidates... so how valuable was kpcb and sequoia capital's 'advice' and 'relationships' and keiretsu? not very. and founder jon abrams is now watching as friendster now must try and find a niche somewhere -- anywhere -- now that doerr and moritz messed it up friendster would have been the orkut of orkut if kleiner perkins and sequoia capital hadn’t convinced the founder NOT to see to Google, pre-IPO… both john doerr and michael moritz thought friendster would be worth more and could possibly ipo back in 2003/04. those were the days when freinster was the ‘myspace’ of the day, with everyone using it, from college students to presidential candidates… so how valuable was kpcb and sequoia capital’s ‘advice’ and ‘relationships’ and keiretsu? not very. and founder jon abrams is now watching as friendster now must try and find a niche somewhere — anywhere — now that doerr and moritz messed it up

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