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An anonymous tipster wrote in asking:
You should ask why Vintacom has only one person left from management and why Websourced ceased to exist? The only person left at Vinta is Mike Baldock and a couple of IT people. All have gone on to better (non THK) opportunities.
I haven’t exactly been a fan of the recent [...]

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From the rumor mill: Word is filtering back from iDate that a new Jewish dating site has not been paying affiliates for while and they are considering shutting down due to financial problems.

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The marketing hypocrisy at True.com continues. Really, this is the last time I’m ever going mention it. Who am I kidding, True is the dating service the entire industry loves to hate on. But secretly want to score with their models.
Herb Vest is obviously no longer in control of the company. There is not way [...]

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Today, Markus incorrectly guessed that Union Square Ventures funded OkCupid to tune of $6 million earlier this year.
BZZZZZ Wrong.
I just got back from having a coffee (venti chai latte with soy) with OkCupid founder Sam Yagan in the Boston gardens. It was our first time meet and we lounged in the warm October New [...]

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JDate founder Alon Carmel has a new gig. Carmel resigned from Spark Networks less than a month ago. Now we know what he is up to.

The TechCrunch bunch says:

Founder Alon Carmel is a gifted designer and developer and is getting ready to launch his stealth project I4giveu. Very few details on the service were revealed, [...]

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The Match.com brain drain continues. Several key people at Match have left the company to work at another consumer brand hell bent on putting Reed Hastings out of business.
This is a continuing trend at Match, I get more Plaxo updates from the Texas internet dating giant than any other dating site.

Details are thin, but let’s [...]

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I received a tip from a Molson drinker that Lavalife paid something like $5 million a year (CDN) for the deal with Sympatico.MSN.ca. That’s about $4.1M USD to us Budweiser drinkers.

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“Matchmaker needs a matchmaker.
Post $10m ad spend, white flag flying.
Suffering from recent bout of brain drain.
Needs TLC, url to die for.
Gr8 potential for right buyer.
$2M or B.O.”

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A financier’s discourse on the parallels between online dating and investing. Instant classic.
Eric J. Fry, writing for The Daily Reckoning, an investment website:
“You should try Match.com,” a friend suggested to your New York editor recently. “That Website rocks!”
“Yeah, I know about Match.com,” we replied. “That’s the somewhat hip dating site where my ex-wife placed [...]

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