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Paris-based Meetic.com is hosting Valentine’s Eve street parties. The festivities will include DJs and speed-dating stands, where singles have only a few minutes to chat up a potential partner.
Predictable, online dating in Europe is taking off as expected, a few years behind the US, just like during the late 90’s tech boom. There are several key differences between the markets which US dating need to understand before they can simply jump across the pond and set up shop. Match is doing well, and Meetic seems to be booming. Both stand to substantially increase revenue through mobile dating services once they figure out how to make the experience more appealing.
Call your broker, Meetic is going to IPO in six months.
The Paris BusinessWeek bureau manages to capture the essence of the EU dating market fairly well. Read more…
