Online Dating Industry News 6-15-12
While browsing AngelList, I came across Pinstant Karma which calls itself “A pitch-perfect convergence of match.com and Pinterest that will energize the online dating segment.” With stunning visual pin boards singles can easily ‘like’ and...Online Dating Industry News 6-12-12
Match Stir events are live in Miami. By now everyone knows that eHarmony was hacked. For all the dimensions of compatibility, the press releases about big data, the tech meetups, big IT infrastructure, data centers, Hadoop, etc., you would think they spent a few days...When Will Match.com Acquire Zhenai?
Last week I mentioned that Jiayuan is an Asian dating site that the Match business development team seems to have missed out on. Match has had some ups and downs with their Asian investments over the years, mostly downs. But with deep pockets and IAC as a parent,...Location-Based Skout Raises Additional $22 Million
Several years ago I met Christian and (at the time) Redg at Skout, think it was iDate. After talking to them a while I wanted to help them out with fundraising, so I went to the usual suspects and sat in on some investor meetings on Skout’s behalf. Nobody was...I’m In Like With You founder Becomes Filthy Rich Overnight
Once upon a time there was a casual auction-based dating site called I’m in Like With You. The basic premise of the site was to gain points for bidding on people by answering questions. I never really understood the site, and then it went away. But this is not a...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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