by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Funny article about how Southwest Airlines open seating plan makes it easy for singles to meet on the plane. As a part of building a brand image, the airline used to call its in-flight snacks “love bites” and its in-flight drinks “love...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching
The marketing machine at True.com remains in full swing. Now they’re saying that “Millions of Singles Could Be Using Flawed Compatibility Tests.” If that’s the case, I better call my girlfriend. After our first date we shared our compatibility...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
The VP of Business Development will be responsible for leading the present and future direction of the Date.com’s business development. Responsibilities include building and managing an online business development team, growing and optimizing our existing online...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
I’m back from the SITRAS conference in Miami. Catching up on the squabble between True and Match and the 200k full page ad in the Times, more details when we get them. I contacted Crayton Harrison, who broke the story. Hopefully he will respond with more...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
From DallasNews.com. Match.com LP, the Dallas-based giant of online dating, wants to take depositions from four ex-employees who now work for a smaller rival, TrueBeginnings LLC of Irving. The employees may have disclosed trade secrets or may have broken contracts,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
More info on Match.com founder Gary Kremen in WIRED. In 1994, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers offered to invest in the online classifieds business that Match.com was part of, but the VCs wanted to merge it with Architext, which would become Excite.com. Kremen...