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From a Bella Online:

…They had secured a few financial grants to help get them started and had lined up investors to help them afford the initial launch costs. The equipment and technology alone for eHarmony web site cost more than $3.1 million. They had no clients. When they first opened for business in August 2000, it cost more than $300,000 per month in overhead merely to keep the company going.

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