by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Congrats to Ted Rheingold, who has managed to turn animal social networking a viable business model with Dogster and Catster. Ted raised an additional $1 million from a group of high-powered angel investors. Dogster makes 95 percent of revenue from advertising and...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark Networks Board of Directors as authorized the Company to seek approval of a share repurchase plan at its next Annual General Meeting. The company intends to to authorize the potential repurchase of up to an aggregate of approximately 2,000,000 of the...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Online Dating Industry
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by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Social: Dating & Networking
While I was away for the weekend at a bachelor party, Liz Gannes at GigaOM (congrats on the move Liz!) wrote that Friendster has raised another $10 million dollars. This appears to be separate from the company’s $3.1 million recapitalization round earlier this year....
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Industry Finance
I just got off the phone with Userplane CEO Mike Jones after taking a few much-needed days off the grid in Vermont. I met Mike a few years ago in San Francisco and have always liked the way we approached chat in the dating and social networking spaces. Mike has been a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
JDate has launched a website called JMag. Similar to Match’s Happen Magazine, there are lifestyle stories, how to’s and dating tips. Speaking of JDate, Spark Networks’ Second Quarter results were announced last week. The Company reported second...