PRESS HERALD – Mar 3 – In 1999 Chris Coyne and his friends Sam Yagan and Max Krohn began work on SparkNotes.com, a site providing free online study guides for students. The partners sold both websites to publicly traded iTurf in 2000. When iTurf's stock crashed shortly after, the partners helped the company sell the sites to Barnes & Noble, which eventually shut down TheSpark.com but maintained SparkNotes.com. In 2003, Coyne, Krohn and Yagan moved to the next project, a free online dating site OkCupid and launched in 2004. Today, the site has 1.3M monthly unique users and 500K daily users. Last month, Coyne and his partners sold OkCupid to Match.com for $50M. Coyne attributed OkCupid's success partly to complex mathematical algorithms that match members with like-minded singles. There are even math questions, such as, "What is next in this series? 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, _."
by Jonathan Hemmerdinger
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OKCupid has the most fascinating and successful blog in the iDating industry.
OKCupid has the most fascinating and successful blog in the iDating industry.