by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Are you sitting down? Pasadena-based EHarmony sold $100M preferred stock to 14 investors including Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures. Chief Executive Greg Forgatch: This sends a signal that the venture capitalists who are funding the company have faith...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Friendster and eHarmony announced an exclusive partnership to bring scientific matchmaking to Friendster’s rapidly growing community. As part of the agreement, the companies will jointly launch a co-branded matching service that will combine eHarmony’s...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
eHarmoney is offering a a 12-part CD series featuring online self-assessments called Finding the Love of your Life. Pricing is $14.95 a month for 12 months or $179.95. Certain dating sites are currently exploring the infomercial angle to pitch similar concepts. Keep...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
eHarmony call centers currently handle over 100,000 customer inquiries each month by phone, email and live chat, and the company projects the number of “customer care” representatives alone to grow by 25 percent by the end of 2004. In response to the call...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
A bit about the tech running EHarmony… Custom-built with enterprise Java tools and running on Resin, an open-source application, the site takes the answers to your questionnaire and stores them in a Microsoft SQL database as a “psychological...