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Recent Press 01-2012 Engineering Serendipity -- TechCrunch 01-2012 It's becoming a mobile-first world -- GigaOM 12-2011 myYearbook Debuts iPad App -- MediaPost 12-2011 MyYearbook Hits Half A Million Daily Mobile Users, Launches iPad App -- TechCrunch 09-2011 Google+ Solves a Problem No One Has -- Huffington Post 08-2011 myYearbook Co-Founder Catherine Cook On The Only Way To Close The Gender Gap -- Huffington Post 07-2011 Young web entrepreneurs make big bucks -- CBS News 07-2011 Here's How I Sold That Startup For $100 Million -- Business Insider 07-2011 Why We Sold myYearbook -- paidContent.org 07-2011 myYearbook Founders on America's Future -- CNBC 07-2011 Founders of myYearbook.com -- My Fox NY 07-2011 Millennials Make Millions -- Wall Street Journal 07-2011 This 21-Year-Old Just Sold Her Startup For $100 Million -- Business Insider 07-2011 Facebook For Latinos Quepasa Buys myYearbook For $100 Million In Cash And Stock -- TechCrunch 07-2011 MyYearbook chases engagement, games and mobile for social networking success -- GigaOM 04-2011 Q&A With Geoff Cook: How We Solved The Chatroulette Porn Problem -- TechCrunch 04-2011 Google Tweaks Android Rankings to Reward Engagement -- GigaOM 04-2011 Did Android Market Change Its Ranking Algorithm? -- Business Insider 03-2011 Teen-Focused Social Network MyYearbook Pushes Into Mobile With Acquisition of Five Android Apps -- Inside Mobile Apps 03-2011 When Mobile Eats The Web: Social Net MyYearbook Prepares For Tipping Point -- MediaPost 03-2011 myYearbook Bets Big On Android With Acquisitions Of Five Apps, FlockEngine -- TechCrunch 03-2011 myYearbook Expands Mobile Strategy With Acquistion Of 5 Android Apps And Gaming Engine -- SocialTimes 03-2011 myYearbook Buys Five Android Apps in Mobile Gaming Push -- All Things Digital 03-2011 The Female Mark Zuckerberg? -- MSNBC 03-2011 The female Mark Zuckerberg: How 21-year-old created a social network because she didn't like her school yearbook photo... and is now worth $20m -- Daily Mail 12-2010 Facebook Has It All Wrong When It Comes To Social Games -- Business Insider 12-2010 That Other Social Network (No, The Other One) Launches Video Social Gaming -- MediaPost 12-2010 myYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat -- TechCrunch 09-2010 The Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Startups -- Business Insider 09-2010 myYearbook Recruits Meez Into Virtual Currency Exchange Service -- SocialTimes 08-2010 myYearbook Lands Elusive OMGPOP As Games Partner -- SocialTimes 08-2010 Teen-Oriented Social Network MyYearbook Opens to Game Developers, Starting With Omgpop -- Inside Social Games 08-2010 Outside the Echo Chamber: Growing a Startup in New Hope, PA -- TechCrunch 07-2010 Ypulse Interview: Geoff Cook, myYearbook -- Ypulse 07-2010 WeeWorld Joins MyYearbook's Currency Connect -- Virtual Goods News 06-2010 MyYearbook's Celebrity Live Feed Launches With Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and More -- SocialTimes 06-2010 Study: Teens Who are Social Online are Social in Life, But Don't Like Television, Foursquare -- FastCompany 05-2010 Teen Social Media Influencers Wield Power Online and Offline (PDF) 04-2010 myYearbook's Live Feed Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month -- TechCrunch 03-2010 Social Media: An Interview With The Co-Founder And CEO Of myYearbook -- ThinkEquity 02-2010 myYearbook Revenue at $20 Million Annually and Growing -- Mashable 04-2010 (forthcoming) Gen X and Y's Attitudes on Using Social Media Platforms for Opinion Sharing -- Penn State 02-2010 "One of the major startup success stories of recent years" -- MinOnline 02-2010 Building a Social Network in a Facebook and Twitter World -- paidContent.org 01-2010 MyYearbook Rolls Out Its Crowdsourced Redesign -- TechCrunch 01-2010 Tech and Internet Giants Step Up to Help Haiti -- Mashable 12-2009 IMVU and myYearbook set up virtual currency exchange -- VentureBeat 10-2009 myYearbook deepens push into virtual cash with toolbar, Target cash cards -- VentureBeat 08-2009 Why Don't Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them -- TechCrunch 08-2009 Does social media sway online shopping? -- BusinessWeek 08-2009 myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World -- TechCrunch 08-2009 Freemium Pays for Teen Social Net -- MinOnline 08-2009 myYearbook: Would You Pay for Social Networking Extras? -- BusinessWeek 08-2009 myYearbook Adds Premium Subscription Service -- MediaPost 05-2009 MyYearbook Making Millions With Virtual Currency Sales -- Virtual Goods News 05-2009 Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook's Lunch Money adds up -- VentureBeat 02-2009 Lunch Money Adds Up to Cash Cow for myYearbook -- Mashable 01-2009 The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y -- Mashable 10-2008 myYearbook Launches Causes -- Ypulse 10-2008 myYearbook Finds Success in Casual Gaming -- Mashable 03-2008 "The largest, fast-growing social network is myYearbook" -- VentureBeat 01-2008 "The fastest growing social network in 2007" -- Hitwise 07-2007 Teen's social-networking site a hit -- San Francisco Chronicle 07-2007 Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 -- Inc. Magazine 05-2007 Straight to the Top -- Entrepreneur's Startups Magazine 05-2007 Most Likely to Succeed -- Entrepreneur Magazine 02-2007 Venture Capital Whiz Kid -- Squawk Box, CNBC  01-2007 Whiz Kids in Business -- The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNBC  10-2006 myYearbook Ranks Ahead of Friendster -- The New York Times  06-2006 Myspace Generation Going Online for Yearbooks -- CNN / Associated Press  06-2006 She's So Cosmogirl! -- Cosmogirl (Cover) (Article) 04-2006 My Dot-Com Boom -- BusinessWeek 03-05-2006 David vs. Murdoch ... er Goliath -- Om Malik's Blog 02-2006 MediaMetrix reports myYearbook Growing Faster Than Myspace and Overtakes Friendster in Just 4 Months. 02-27-2006 Can Myspace Be Beaten? -- Om Malik's Blog 02-2006 Hipness -- BusinessWeek

Recent Press Releases Dec - 11 myYearbook Launches iPad App Sep - 11 myYearbook Updates Safety Measures with New Photo Monitoring System Jul - 11 Quepasa and myYearbook Announce Merger Agreement Jun - 11 myYearbook Co-founder Catherine Cook and CEO Geoff Cook Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Greater Philadelphia Award Winners May - 11 myYearbook's Catherine Cook and Geoff Cook Named Finalists for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Greater Philadelphia Award Mar - 11 myYearbook Acquires Top Android Apps and a Multiplayer Engine to Power Meeting New People Jan - 11 Social Gaming Gets Personal with the Launch of "myYearbook Live" Dec - 10 myYearbook Debuts "Live" Gaming Platform; Introduces Video Chat Into Social Games Jul - 10 "Got Milk?," Six Flags, and MTV Engage with Live Feed Jul - 10 myYearbook Welcomes WeeWorld to Currency Connect, Further Establishes Role In Virtual Economy Jun - 10 myYearbook Debuts Celebrity Live Feed Jun - 10 myYearbook Brings Live Feed Real-Time Location-Based Stream to the iPhone May - 10 Teen Social Media Influencers Wield Power Online and Offline Apr - 10 myYearbook's Live Feed Reaches 1 Million Posts Per Day Mar - 10 myYearbook Lands Digital Media Industry Veteran to Lead Business Development Jan - 10 myYearbook Crowdsources New Website Design Oct - 09 myYearbook Debuts New Toolbar for Search and Social Shopping Aug - 09 myYearbook VIP Club Proves Freemium Subscription Model Can Work for Social Networks May - 09 Social Network Uses Lunch Money to Save the World! Mar - 09 myYearbook Challenges Stephen Colbert for Interstellar Domination! Oct - 08 myYearbook.com Overtakes Wikipedia and Amazon Oct - 08 Social Network Gives Its Members a Chance to Save the Planet! Jul - 08 myYearbook Named 3rd Largest Social Network in the US May - 08 200,000 Pledge To Stop Cyberbullying In Honor Of Megan Meier Mar - 08 myYearbook.com Is Fourth Most Popular Social Network in United States Feb - 08 Upstart Social Network myYearbook.com Shows Phenomenal 400 Percent Growth in Market Share in 2007 Jan - 08 myYearbook Tackles Online Safety with Help of SocialSafety.org Dec - 07 Over 3 Million Virtual Trees Decorated at myYearbook.com Sep - 07 myYearbook.com Calls on All Social Networks to Add Prominent Abuse Reporting Links Jul - 07 myYearbook.com Launches Video Battles, myMag and a Brand New Design Jun - 07 myYearbook.com's Internet Traffic Increases 70% Nov - 06 Battles.myYearbook.com Launches! Oct - 06 PIMP.myYearbook.com Launches! Sep - 06 myYearbook.com Inks Content Deal with CliffsNotes Jun - 06 Executive Bios: Catherine | Dave | Geoff Management & Board Catherine Cook Founder. Co-founded myYearbook in 2005. David Cook Founder. Co-founded myYearbook in 2005. Geoff Cook CEO. First Investor. Older Brother. Past: Founded and sold EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com to The Thomson Corporation. Harvard '00. Don Eyer VP Operations - Safety. Past: Built Trust and Safety for eBay and Half.com. 23 years in law enforcement. BA from Colorado State in Criminal Justice and Education. Mike Amarosa Safety Advisor. Past: Deputy Commissioner for Technological Development for NYPD where he was directly responsible for 9-1-1 for the city of New York. JD, New York Law School. Greg Stuart Advertising Advisor. Past: CEO of IAB leading industry from $6B in 2001 to $17B today and grew IAB 500%. Richard Jalichandra Strategic Advisor. Present: CEO of Technorati. Past: SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media. Instrumental in $650M IGN deal. Rick Lewis Director. Venture Capitalist, USVP Past: Walt Disney Imagineering. Sun. McKinsey. Autodesk. MBA, Harvard Business School. Sergio Monsalve Director. Venture Capitalist, NVP Past: VP Product Marketing at Photobucket. Led eBay's digital goods marketplace and user-generated content efforts worldwide. MBA, Harvard Business School. Chris Fralic Board Observer. Venture Capitalist, First Round Capital Past: VP Bus Dev at del.icio.us. eBay. Early Half.com employee developing fund raising, content licensing, affiliate program, partnerships, advertising sales. Ron Conway Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP Past: Named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "dealmakers" in 2006. Spencer Rhodes Angel Investor. Strategic Advisor. Present: COO, Tradewinds Investment Management. Past: Vice President at BlackRock, Venture Capital at Merrill Lynch, Harvard Business School. Gavin Roy Chief Technical Officer. Past: Database & PHP Expert. Framewerk.org. PostgreSQL community member. Jim Bugden Chief Financial Officer. Past: Govberg Group, CFO; TurnTide, Dir of Finance; Half.com, Controller. Deloitte CPA. William Alena Chief Revenue Officer. Past: Built Scholastic's advertising business. Doubleclick.

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