One of the most satisfying aspects of being the leading online formation company is seeing your customers succeed.

In April of 2004, BizFilings helped Mark Zuckerberg form a company called ‘thefacebook LLC’, a social networking website that helped connect Harvard students with friends. It would have been hard to predict that in less than five years the business startup would become one of the fastest growing online communities.

After launching the site for Harvard students, Zuckerman joined forces with Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. They formed a Florida-based Limited Liability Company (LLC) using BizFilings.com and expanded Facebook to Stanford, Columbia and Yale.

Facebook received its first investment ($500,000) in June 2004 from Peter Thiel (the cofounder of PayPal) and gradually became the online networking community for most universities in Canada and the United States.

In 2005, thefacebook company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com.  This type of rebranding is common and can typically be integrated easily into a company’s existing legal structure by filing a DBA or fictitious name.

Now, the website has more than 80 million active users worldwide. Although the company remains privately held, several companies (including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) have shown a keen interest.  According to Wikipedia, the value of facebook has been estimated at more than $8 billion based on projected revenues of more than $1.5 billion by 2015.

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