sgrouples press kit - june 2013
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THE WORLD'S PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK
Media Information Kit
Sgrouples.com
JUNE 2013
PRACTICE SAFE SHARING!
Mark Weinstein, CEO
mobile: 408-502-0827
office: 408.530.9092
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About Sgrouples
The Worlds Private Social Network
Sgrouples is the privacy-centric, all-in-one social network that lets individuals (and organizations)
connect and share with the people and communities they know in real life. We call it "The Worlds
Private Social Network". Sgrouples is simple: We provide our users with the worlds most powerful
social experience and peace-of-mind with ourPrivacy Bill of Rights.
Sgrouples pioneers "privacy by design." At Sgrouples, you own your content. Your personal information
is private and is yours; its not our business. There is no spying, no tracking cookies, and no stalking
within our site. Permissions and privacy are your rights, we make it easy for you to allow or deny access
to any content you post. Advertising is non-invasive and our revenue model is expansive.
Our user agreement clearly outlines exactly how we choose not to use our customers data. If we everchange our policy, we promise to email every Sgrouples user and tell them exactly what we changed and
give them the option, in email, to delete their account.
Sgrouples makes it simple to Practice Safe Sharing.
Your Real Life. Online.
Sgrouplesis about keeping it real. In real life you dont have a thousand friends, and you dont
talk in 140 characters. You dont interact with your family the same way you do with your
friends, and you dont share the same things with your fraternity or sorority that you do with
your co-workers.
Sgrouples connects you to your real relationships in the real world. You really may have a
thousand or more contacts, and you want to control who sees what and how you interact with
those different people. At Sgrouples, invite your friends, family, and everyone in your life to
become your Contacts and then share what you want with exactly who you want, just like in
real life. Its social media for the real world.
Sgrouples keeps it simple, revolutionary, and intuitive. Create private groups to share
selectively with the different people in your life. Or, with one click, share one-to-one or one-to-
many with your Contacts through private messages. Share simultaneously with your other
social networks through our central hub. You can even store, share and print photos or create
and collaborate on documents. Store everything in your free, private cloud! Plan events. Havegreat discussions. It is natural, integrated, easy. Sgrouples is the Web 3.0 of social media.
Enjoy. Be real. Welcome home.
Watch our short video to learn more!
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Corporate Fact Sheet
Leadership Mark Weinstein, Founder & CEO
Jonathan Wolfe, PhD, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Advisory Board
Patty Aubrey: President, Jack Canfield Companies
Jack Canfield: Legendary Founder, Chicken Soup For The Soul
Ken Lamb: Partner Emeritus, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Nate Kievman: CEO, Digital Strategist, LinkedStrategies.com
Karen Leland: Co-Founder, Sterling Consulting Group
Dianne Morrison: Partner, MorrisonMcNabb, LLC
Colin Sebastian: Director, Equity Research/Internet, RW Baird
Brett Shevack: CEO, Brand Initiatives; Former Vice Chair, BBDO
Kate Shevack: MD, Brand Initiatives; Former CMO, SVP Timex
Marci Shimoff: New York Times best-selling author ofHappy for No Reason
Sherry Turkle: Professor, MIT; TED speaker; Author ofAlone Together
Gary Vollen: former Managing Director, RW Baird
History & Location:
Sgrouples, Inc. was incorporated in June 7, 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View,
California.
About the Company:
Sgrouples is the worlds private social network. It is your real life, online. Invite your friends,
family, and your other real-world communities to become one of My Contacts, and with one
click safely share photos, documents, discussions or events with exactly who you want through
private, members only groups or direct 1:1 messaging. Automatically store everything you post
in your personal, free My CloudTM
. Bring your conversations online with Discussions. Manage
your other social networks from our integrated hub. Sgrouples was designed specifically for
those who are overwhelmed by their many social networks as well as those concerned about
how their online activities and personal information are tracked, stored and shared. Sgrouples
users have the complete protection and peace-of-mind provided by our groundbreaking PrivacyBill of Rights. At Sgrouples you own your content; there is no cookie tracking, data scraping, or
spying on users.
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Partners and Awards
Sgrouples is currently in the process of developing partnerships with other user-centric and
privacy-minded Internet service companies. Sgrouples has been named:
2012 Honor Role Recipient Online Trust Alliance
Ambassador Privacy By Design, Information and Privacy Commissioner Ontario, Canada
Champion National Cyber Security Alliance
Steering Committee MemberNational Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, White
House Initiative
Advisory Board Member Future of Privacy Forum
Key Features:
Sgrouples combines the unique advantages of many different Web-based services, all in one
place, and protects its users with an unprecedented level of privacy:
Sgrouples Privacy Bill of Rights - no tracking, no profiling, no sharing of personal information
Sort and share with your friends, family, and communities through My Contacts
Private, custom user groups
Stay up to date with your personalized Whats New feed
Patent-pending permission tool (GroupAuthTM
) lets users control their privacy settings
Cloud storage with My CloudTM
(4 GB free at sign-up, up to 10 GB free with sharing)
Social network aggregation in one easy-to-use dashboard
Participate in powerful Discussions and collaborate/create Documents
Create and share Event calendars
Stunning Sgrouples Mobile experience Upcoming features: from photo printing to apps and games
Learn more about SgrouplesWatch our Video!
Revenue Sources:
White labeling, data storage, user-selected advertising, coupons, and the Sgrouples App Store.
Sgrouples Privacy Bill of Rights
Sgrouples is committed to providing its users with the most private experience on the Web. We
stand by the following statements, as outlined by our Privacy Bill of Rights:
Your personal information is private and it is yours; it is explicitly not our business.
There is no tracking of users, no profiling, and no scraping of personal information.
You own your content and all of your data.
You are in control of who can see information about you.
Permissions and privacy are your rights. We make it easy for you to deny or give access to any
content you create.
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Press Highlights
National
FOX NEWS:Mark Weinstein on Fox News
FORBES:Privacy Isn't Dead With Millennials, It's Thriving
Facebook's New Graph Search: Boon or Privacy Concern?
HUFFINGTON POST:Is Privacy Dead?Be Careful Sexting With Snapchat
Entertainment Snafu: PATH Becomes An Intruder
BUSINESS INSIDER:Check Out Sgrouples, The Truly Private Social Network
Your Online Privacy Is Even More Important Today
ZDNET:Will Sgrouples End Social Networking's Attack on Privacy?
INC: Keep Your Data Safe on Social Media
TECHZULU:Sgrouples | The Worlds Private Social Network, Interview with Forrest Hanson
POLICYMIC:Mark Weinstein on the Future of Innovation
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE, SMALL BUSINESS PROFESSOR:Small Business Privacy and
Security with Mark Weinstein
SHOESTRING VENTURE:First Privacy Centric Dashboard Sgrouples Protects and Respects Your
Data
SPEAKING FREELY WITH DENNIS RAIMODI:Mark Weinstein Interview
BRANDCHANNEL:Sgrouples: Don't Spy and Scrape - Serve and Delight
CYBER LAW AND BUSINESS REPORT:Mark Weinstein Quoted on Cyber Law & Business Report
International
CANADA IT:Protect Before You Connect! Simple Precautions to Avoid an Online Personal
Privacy Disaster
TOWEB:Sgrouples: un nuovo concetto di social networking!
PRIVACY BY DESIGN AMBASSADOR:Mark Weinstein, Founder and CEO of Sgrouples.com,
Named Privacy by Design Ambassador
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Competitive Advantage
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Executive Biographies
Mark is a leading privacy advocate and the founder ofSgrouples.com, the worlds private social
network. He is the Huffington Post's privacy blogger, and an Advisory Board Member of the
Future of Privacy Forum, as well as a Steering Committee Member of National Strategy forTrusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a White House initiative to improve the privacy,
security, and convenience of sensitive online transactions. Mark is also a member of the Online
Trust Alliance (OTA) where Sgrouples has been given "Honor Roll" status for its dedication to
user safety, and was named an Ambassador of Privacy by Design by the Information and Privacy
Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.
Mark and Sgrouples have been featured on Fox News, Forbes, Business Insider, ZDNET, INC, and
numerous other top-tier media outlets in the USA and abroad. As a visionary social networking
pioneer, Mark founded SuperFamily.com and SuperFriends.com in 1998, which were PC
Magazine"Top 100" sites and precursors to todays social networks.
A successful athlete, Mark was a silver medalist in the 2005 USOC State Games of America
(tennis) and has climbed Kala Patthar, an 18,500 foot Nepalese peak. He is also an expert on
individual and organizational greatness and is the author of the award-winning HABITUALLY
GREATbook series, endorsed by Stephen Covey. Mark received his BA from the University of
California, Santa Cruz; and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He
currently resides in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Mark Weinstein
Founder & CEO
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Jonathan Wolfe is the Chief Scientist atSgrouples.com, the worlds private social network. As
Chief Scientist, Jonathan leads the design of Sgrouples groundbreaking interface and manages
an amazing global team of developers responsible for building a world-class web and mobile
experience. His design philosophies are grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior
and cognitive brain function, as well as his studies of the neurophysiology of the visual system
and precognitive perception.
A pioneer in using the Internet to foster communication and collaboration, Jonathan built his
first webpage in 1995 and co-foundedSuperFamily.comandSuperFriends.comin 1998 with
Mark, which were PC Magazine"Top 100" sites and precursors to todays social networks.
Jonathan has been programming for over thirty years, starting in 1981 on an Apple II+. He is a
veteran of a wide array of programming languages and design philosophies, from Basic and C
programming all the way to Scala and Lift. Jonathan has actively studied user design, human
factors engineering, and information architecture, and is an expert on the challenges of
complex web interaction. While many programmers build designs that are only understood by
other programmers, Jonathan is highly focused on making his interfaces clear, simple, and
highly intuitive.
Jonathan received his B.A. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins in 1990, and his Ph.D. in
neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He went on to found the Fractal
Foundation in 2003, a nonprofit that uses the beauty of fractals to inspire interest in science,
math and art. Since 2003, he has taught over 50,000 children about fractals. An artist as well as
a scientist, his studies of the neurophysiology of the visual system were inspired by his love of
color, form and motion. He is passionate about sharing the beauty of math and science, and has
inspired and enthralled audiences all over the world, from the London Museum to Rio de
Janeiro.
Jonathan Wolfe
Chief Scientist
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Contact InformationFor all media inquiries or to schedule an interview, contact:
Mark Weinstein, CEO & Founder
mobile: 408-502-0827
office: 408.530.9092
The Worlds Private Social Network
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