From Recommending Shoes to Humans
Look out, recommendation engines are hot again. In 1996 it was all about Firefly, then Amazon, followed by Netflix and now a whole new crop of players are emerging, from Attention Trust to Pandora, who’s leader I saw speak at MIT a few weeks ago. Great story how...Using Customer Churn To Your Advantage
Last night I was tweaking my Match profile. I saw that it asked me for the town I grew up in. I don’t remember that as a question before, and have no way of telling if that’s a new question or not because who can keep track of these things? Sometimes it...Gottaflirt: Great Concept, Loser Audience
I was on the phone with HeyLetsGo founder Roy Rodenstein recently. Roy mentioned several sites and resources that I’d never heard of. One that caught my interest was Gottaflirt: GottaFlirt is an interactive, fast-paced dating game. A woman plays with several men...Matchdoctor.com: Blogging Meets Dating
Matchdoctor has introduced blogs to the standard dating website. Luke Kalish, President of Matchdoctor: Turning to blogs was only a natural progression in the online dating industry. Blogs are an ideal way of getting to know someone through their own words and...Bunchball Gets $2 Million Funding
Last week I spoke with Rajat Paharia, CEO and founder of Social gaming company Bunchball, and board member Gene Mauro. Gene is a long time video game exec., started and operated several high profile game ventures including Capital Entertainment Group (with the...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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