Engage Attracts $5 Million
Engage, which is making a name for itself by allowing members to play matchmaker, has raised an additional $5 million in a round led by Advanced Technology Ventures and seed investors Revolution Ventures. The Founders Fund and Josh Kopleman also participated. The...MatchActivity, Activity-Baesd Dating
GigaOM has details on activity-based matchmaker MatchActivity. I’ve worked with a few similar site in the past and remain somewhat skeptical about how the current crop of services are going to grow large enough to sustain customer acquisition costs. I use...Mark Brooks Interviews Mooble
Mark Brooks has published a number of dating and social networking executive interviews. His latest is with Mooble, yet another social networking site. Quick thoughts: Home pages full of half-naked women will get you a lot of spike traffic. Show me the revenue. Mooble...The Economics of Online Dating Innovation
A new trend is emerging where free dating sites add the phrase Skype on their home page and call themselves the next generation of online dating. Let me say it here once and for all. Starting a new dating or social networking site with a core differentiator solely...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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