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Online Dating Insider - Nov 12, 2008
Spark Networks is trending down, with a few positive notes. JDate revenue and subscribers down General market revenue down 49% Revenue for Offline & Other Businesses down Average paying subscribers down 10% …
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Online Dating Insider - Oct 21, 2008
Andrew Chen has links to one of his favorite blogs. Altgate is A Blog On Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between. This post caught my attention, Dating…er…Fundraising Etiquette. Lots of posts about every …
Online Dating Insider - Oct 17, 2008
Ignighter Raises $1.2 Million For Group Dating. Still, it’s unclear at this point whether there’ll be space in the online dating galaxy for group matching, let alone two virtually indistinguishable players. Both …
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Dating Startup Funding and Marketing TacticsOnline Dating Insider - Oct 9, 2008 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 … Also tagged: marketing |
Online Dating Insider - Oct 5, 2008
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 …
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Online Dating Insider - Sep 16, 2008
The unofficial eHarmony blog compares my thoughts about eHarmony’s acquisition plans with Mark Brooks. Original Post is here. Mark Brook says, Waldorf says eHarmony has pass the minimum requirements for an IPO, but …
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Online Dating Insider - Sep 9, 2008
Converting a free dating site to paid subscriptions usually results in horrendous attrition rates. Jott, which converts speech to email on my iPhone (and web of course), recently made the changeover from free beta to …
Online Dating Insider - Sep 4, 2008
Every week I receive emails from dating site startups about how to get funded. Traditional VC’s have traditionally avoided the dating space, most investments come from single angel investors or angel syndicates. The …
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Online Dating Insider - Aug 29, 2008
Mail.ru, a major portal in Russia and the country’s first billion-dollar internet firm, has purchased a 30 percent stake in online dating site Mamba for $15 million. Read the rest, including an overview of the Russian …
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Online Dating Insider - Aug 29, 2008
Spectacular weather here in Boston this week. Yesterday’s al fresco meeting on Newbury Street briefly touched on SpeedDate, which announced that it has raised an additional $6 million. Competitor Woome got in trouble …
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