by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups
Here’s a cautionary tale for all you online dating startups trying to out-Thread Thread. Part history lesson, part obituary, this one’s for the 10+ startups working in the social dating space. In recent years, the dating industry has focused first on...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
After a bummer of a sale to FriendFinder Networks, which has proven adept at killing off perfectly good acquisitions, Nerve.com has launched a new dating site. Many people, myself included, consider Nerve/SpringStreet to have been the best “first wave”...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Today’s guest post is by Jeff Kauflin, who is writing a book about online dating. An article he wrote about the Match.com founder Gary Kremen recently appeared in Business Insider. Jeff is also Director of Operations at Marketing Evolution, a marketing...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching
Lately I’ve become more and more concerned with what websites and apps are doing with my personal information on Facebook. As previously noted, I have disconnected just about every single dating app, Facebook and website/web service from Facebook, because I had...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The crappy screenshot above shows that dating site HowAboutWe does a good job at letting members know that the more you log in, the more dates you post, the more messages you send, the more they will put you in front of other people. Many dating sites reward members...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups
HowAboutWe has launched a new feature, Double dating. When you want to post a great double date idea, simply add a friend’s email address into the date idea form along with your “How about we…”, Date location, and Category. This feels clearly...