BUSINESS INSIDER – June 1 - Clique is a new a dating site that launched at last month's New York Tech Meetup. Singles are encouraged to sign up per usual but the site doesn't work without unavailable friends signing up too. Those in relationships sign up as "wingmen" and match single friends up, just like they would at a party. The most engaged users on Clique are female matchmakers, not daters. Clique will not make users pay for accounts. Instead, the site will make money from broadening access to daters (users can pay to see friends of friends of friends) and from group deals that will help couples plan dates.
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Online Dating Tips From VirtualDatingAssistants.com
BUSINESS INSIDER – Apr 12 - According to market research, 1 out of 6 marriages that are happening in the US right now originated online, and these days ~30% of couples meet on the internet. However the authors of “Freakonomics” discovered that 56% of men that create an online dating profile do not even get one single message while Jupiter Research found that 97% quit within 3 months. Scott Valdez, Founder of Virtual Dating Assistants (ViDA VirtualDatingAssistants.com) advises that informed decisions yield better results.- It Usually Pays to Pay: ViDA found that each message they sent on a pay site was two times as likely to result in a date as a free site.
– Photos - Avoid Flash: According to data analysis by OkCupid, flash adds 7 years to your age. Men, Smiles are Out of Style. Women, Smiles are In Style
– Messages: Focus on the most active users
– Tailor your approach to your audience: While women of all ages respond well to humor, women in their early 30s and above responded well to longer, more thoughtful emails. Women in their 20s rejected these more serious emails.
– Profile Updates: Increase your visibility by keeping your content fresh
– Tailor your approach to your audience: While women of all ages respond well to humor, women in their early 30s and above responded well to longer, more thoughtful emails. Women in their 20s rejected these more serious emails.
– Profile Updates: Increase your visibility by keeping your content fresh
Founder Of Meetic Hooks Up With Glasses Startup
BUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 29 – Marc Simoncini, Founder and CEO of Meetic, the biggest dating site in Europe worth ~$500M on the Paris stock market, is investing $10+ million into Sensee.com and taking over as CEO. Sensee.com sells eyewear and has an ambitious goal to cut in half the average bill in the category. Simoncini has been looking for an exit from Meetic, a thriving success but by now a fairly mature business, which must be boring for the restless entrepreneur. He put the site up for sale last year but could not find a buyer at the price he sought. He also set up a venture capital firm, Jaina Capital, with 100M euros of his own money.
by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
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Mark Brooks: I know the perfect buyer for Meetic. M***h.com. Can you guess?
Facebook Reveals The Most Popular Time For Breakups
BUSINESS INSIDER – Nov 2 - According to data pulled from Facebook, December is one of the most popular months to break up. Bellow is the chart that has been picked up from a TED talk by David McCandless. As you can see, people break up less during the summer, and more during the Winter and Spring. Also, Mondays are a popular day for breakups.
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Why You Should Pay Attention To How About We Startup
BUSINESS INSIDER – Aug 2 – How About We, a months-old dating service built around proposing and accepting specific date ideas, has been generating an impressive amount of buzz. How About We is a company you should actually pay attention to. Here's why:
– Differentiation. As crowded as the dating industry is, there hasn't been much innovation in the nature of the basic product.
– Great additional revenue possibilities. This featured date proposal takes place at a restaurant for which Groupon-clone BuyWithMe is currently offering a coupon.
– Investors like it.
– There's an obvious early exit. This service has plenty of natural buyers if it catches on.
– Social media. How About We lends itself much more readily to user-driven distribution through social networks.
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IAC Posts Earnings
BUSINESS INSIDER – Apr 28 – IAC/InterActiveCorp reported a net loss of $18.7M, or 16 cents per
share, for the Q1 2010. That's compared with a net loss of $28.4M, or
19 cents per share, during the same period last year. Match.com revenue
declined slightly reflecting the sale of Match Europe to Meetic on June
5, 2009, partially offset by the contribution from the People Media and
Singlesnet acquisitions and solid growth from the Match domestic
business. Revenue and subscribers grew 8% and 2%, respectively. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS INSIDER
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