Lessons Learned: HotOrNot

by David Evans on August 8, 2008 · 0 comments

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Before everyone became enamored with PlentyOfFish, HotOrNot was the primary focus of the get rich quick crowd. At a recent Startup2Startup event HON founder James Hong dispensed with the story of how his startup took off and how they bootstrapped in the beginning, hiding servers at Yahoo and using Geocities to store images. If you’re starting a dating site, this is required reading.

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