Free to Paid
Converting a free dating site to paid subscriptions usually results in horrendous attrition rates. Jott, which converts speech to email on my iPhone (and web of course), recently made the changeover from free beta to paid. The email to users was well crafted, gave us...Dating Site Fundraising Just Got Easier
Every week I receive emails from dating site startups about how to get funded. Traditional VC’s have traditionally avoided the dating space, most investments come from single angel investors or angel syndicates. The problem has been how to find angels who are...What Do they call Russian Brides in Russia?
Mail.ru, a major portal in Russia and the country’s first billion-dollar internet firm, has purchased a 30 percent stake in online dating site Mamba for $15 million. Read the rest, including an overview of the Russian dating marketing, at Marketing Vox.SpeedDate Raises $6M, Phony Photos and Desktop Dating Applications
Spectacular weather here in Boston this week. Yesterday’s al fresco meeting on Newbury Street briefly touched on SpeedDate, which announced that it has raised an additional $6 million. Competitor Woome got in trouble when they used Chace Crawford’s (Gossip...Monster.com Losing Money on Dating
From SeekingAlpha: Non-core online dating and video sharing ($3.1 million deficit on revenue of $2.3 million in 2Q08) has been reclassified as a discontinued operation. Remember that $30 million purchase of Tickle and LoveHappens?
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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