by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Features
Plentyoffish is now offering paid virtual goods. A lot of people seem to think that virtual goods/gifts on Facebook or HotOrNot aren’t a success. I’d say making over $250k a day selling icons of smiley faces is pretty good. Don’t get me started on...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark Networks is trending down, with a few positive notes. JDate revenue and subscribers down General market revenue down 49% Revenue for Offline & Other Businesses down Average paying subscribers down 10% The Company purchased 1.6 million shares during the...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Andrew Chen has links to one of his favorite blogs. Altgate is A Blog On Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between. This post caught my attention, Dating…er…Fundraising Etiquette. Lots of posts about every detail related to fundraising. Killer...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Ignighter Raises $1.2 Million For Group Dating. Still, it’s unclear at this point whether there’ll be space in the online dating galaxy for group matching, let alone two virtually indistinguishable players. Both Ignighter and Mixtt have said they could be useful...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
Last night I was at beer club. I started going a few years ago because my good friend Ed attends and it’s one of the few times I get to see him. Last night’s group consisted of a lot of financial types, and the mood was grim, but educational. This morning...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
WeddingBee, a wedding blog with 180,000 monthly readers, has been acquired by eHarmony. There are so many of these blogs I can’t keep track, turns out eHarmony thought enough of this one to make them an offer they couldn’t refuse. eHarmony is doing a good...