Dating Startup Funding and Marketing Tactics
Last night I was at beer club. I started going a few years ago because my good friend Ed attends and it’s one of the few times I get to see him. Last night’s group consisted of a lot of financial types, and the mood was grim, but educational. This morning...JLove’s Fake Profile Woes
A few months ago I received several emails from people asking me to take down their profiles. It took me a while to figure out that these were people who found their names on JLove and that they weren’t having any luck getting JLove to take down their profiles....A Conversation with Match.com GM Mandy Ginsberg
I had a great conversation with Mandy Ginsberg, the new North America General Manager of Match.com. Mandy was the GM of Chemistry.com previously. Mandy replaced Craig Wax, who is no longer with the company. Here’s what I learned. Chemistry growth is up 11%. They...WeddingBee Sells to eHarmony
WeddingBee, a wedding blog with 180,000 monthly readers, has been acquired by eHarmony. There are so many of these blogs I can’t keep track, turns out eHarmony thought enough of this one to make them an offer they couldn’t refuse. eHarmony is doing a good...Online Dating Links for 10-3-2008
Talked to iovation about fraud detection in the online dating space. Their shared database of fraudulent activity is gigantic and getting larger every day. Had a great call with new GM of North American Mandy Ginsberg at Match today. Posting details in the next day or...FollowMeCupid Virtual Dating Chaperone
Chris Nguyen at Cupid.com wrote in to announce the launch of a safety feature called FollowMeCupid.com. FollowMeCupid is one of those services where you enter your date details and a contact into the website. If you don’t check in on time your contact is, well,...Online Dating Insider Links for 10-1-08
New Online Dating Payment Services How PlentyOfFish Made a Million in Three Months Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Sept 24, 2008I am glad to announce that I am not listed as on online predator. I’m glad to see that Astralmatch has a Review of Yahoo...Why eHarmony Should Be More Like Google
A while back Fernando Ardenghi took issue with my statement “eHarmony is innovating, continuously updating the site and matching algorithm.” Fernando argues that as it updates its matching algorithm, eHarmony should recalculate compatibility between...Annotating Profiles
Yesterday I was badgering a friend to put up a testimonial for me on Match.com. I have one already, and without fail woman mention it when they email me. I mean email be back, of course. Surely you didn’t think that woman actually initiate conversation on dating...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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