by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Is Match getting ready to spin out of IAC? Today’s announcement seems to point in that direction. InterActiveCorp (IACI) CEO Greg Blatt is stepping down from his current position to become chairman of the Match Group, a new IAC operating unit containing the...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Poking around AngelList for dating site startup funding opportunities. The category features 414 companies, 20,910 investors and 73,873 followers. Over 50 new dating sites have listed on AngelList in the last few months. Dating site investors are all over the map,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Reading IAC quarterly financials: – New user conversion to payers is up double digits at Match, driven primarily by improvements in the mobile product. Nontraditional products. The user growth here has been phenomenal, up 90% year-over-year to over 16.5 million...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
My favorite clandestine Spark Networks tracker sent in the following and said I could print it, so here it goes (no they do not work for a competing dating site). Your counter-points in the comments, or do you agree with the below perspective? Let me know, curious...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Ross Williams, CEO and Co-founder of Global Personals Ltd, was crowned a winner in the E-commerce category of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards yesterday. Global Personals Ltd launched in 2003 from an office in Ross Williams’s spare bedroom. With annualized...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Matchmaking, Mobile Dating
Match.com is now making $200M a quarter. In the not-too-distant future it’s going to be a billion dollar a year company. More at IAC. Now this is interesting, eHarmony gets into matchmaking at $5,000 a pop. Acquaintable has been acquired by LikeBright. Congrats...