Tinder Invented Sex, Goes Insane
Longtime dating expert Julie Spira wrote a piece on HuffPo about a Vanity Fair article, Tinder and the Dawn of “Dating Apocalypse.”. Update: Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story. Grab the popcorn, this is going to be good. I...Cuban Disses CMB, Funds Competitor Courtem
The Coffee Meets Bagel crash & burn on Shark Tank has led to an interesting development. Mark Cuban, who’s $30M offer the CMB sisters turned down, has invested in Courtem, a dating app from the Anheuser-Busch family. Cuban serves as an advisor and holds an...Whitney Wolfe, Other Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble
A bunch of ex-Tinder staff have left to start a competing service. They may or may not have raised several million dollars. This reminds me of the mass staff exodus from JDate who left to start a competing site. That site lasted a year then faded into oblivion....HowAboutWe co-founder: How to Avoid Delusional Thinking in Start-up Growth Strategy
Over the years I have posted many links to Andrew Chen. Andrew has a great guest post written by Aaron Schildkrout, co-counder of HowAboutWe, which Match recently acquired. While we’re talking about the industry, SFGate has some great stories about the online...LikeBright Pivots to Reveal Chat To Help You Build Real, Social Connections Via Anonymous Chat
Several years ago I connected with Nick Soman, founder of LikeBright. We’ve been in contact ever since, talking about the dating industry, market opportunities, matchmaking based on the social graph, etc. After raising over $1 million and trying a number of...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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