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...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
According to this article in the San Diego Union Tribune, Gary Kremen, the 40-year-old bachelor who founded Match.com is living large near San Diego. He has weaned himself off drugs, began an exercise regimen and found a steady girlfriend. Since he founded the popular...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Handbag maker, gossip-column fodder and former presidential intern Monica Lewinsky has a new gig: host of a dating game on Fox called “Mr. Personality.” “Mr. Personality,” which debuts April 21, will feature a stockbroker named Hayley and 20...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
A Salon.com article about marketing yourself online via cultural references. “Indeed, each personal ad patches together an increasingly eclectic and romantic mélange of brands to create a signature brand: “The Anarchist Cookbook,”...