Defeating Dating Site Background Checks
Scott Olson, VP marketing at iovation, has written about how easy it is to bypass background checks. Scott outlines precisely why I believe background check and fraud-detection companies should work together. They are pitching their services to the exact same people...Lavalife Prime Starts Charging Seniors
Senior dating site Lavelife Prime is about to begin charging it’s 40,000 members. It will be interesting to see what the attrition rate is once the paywall is in place. Wait, it’s for people over 45, not exactly seniors. Then why does search start at 40?...Match.com 2Q 2008 Financial Results
Match has hit the wall in terms of US growth, continuing slight increase in revenue per subscriber. 1% subscriber growth to 1,326,500. Revenue growth was driven by a 4% and 15% increase in international subscribers and revenue per subscriber, respectively, and 3%...Chinese Matchmaking Remains Old School
I was reading about Chinese neocon nationalists in the New Yorker and came across this: Parents shopping for suitable mates for their children gather in the city’s parks most weekends to scrutinize and discuss the resumes of candidates, handwritten on bits of...OnlineSpeedDating.com Domain For Sale
OnlineSpeedDating.com is available, a great strategic asset to an online speed dating company or one that’s about to enter that space. Contact vladravin at gmail dot com for details.Good to Be Back
Summer vacation has been very good to me this year. Fishing on Cape Cod, an unexpected trip to Nantucket and a few days in the Adirondacks has put my head in a good place and I’m recharged and ready to get back to work. I didn’t bring laptop with me, just...Dating Sites Face Chickens and Eggs
Number 8 on Paul Graham’s Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund: Dating. Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. But anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how...Plenty Of Fish Extends Workday to 90 Minutes
Once held up as a shining example of how to succeed by working as little as possible, PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind made a series of stunning announcement this week which have sent shockwaves of despair through the global get-rich-quick and affiliate marketing...Online Dating News: July 18, 2008
Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts. ReadWriteWeb says: More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms...
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