A few years ago I was in New York City visiting friends, clients and family. After a long day of meetings with clients, visiting OkCupid and a few other dating site offices, I was thirsty and in need of good company. Thankfully, I ended up meeting Sherri Langburt for a glass wine wine at a fantastic...

Todays dating industry news update is over at Scoop.it. I’ve tried a number of aggregation and curation services and Scoop.it looks like a good choice. The last one I did at Paper.li didn’t have a preview, so it would publish and I wouldn’t know what it looked like in advanced. This...

Its been a long time since I did a podcast so today I hopped on Skype with Nick Soman and Richard Luck of Likebright, a new social dating startup out of Seattle. Likebright launched out of TechStars. You know who else launched from TechStars? Ignighter, recently renamed StepOut, the fastest-growing...

A major media outlet is doing a a piece about niche dating sites and is hoping to offer a sense of the size of the niche dating site market. Anyone who has statistics about the size of the niche market (Comscore stats on niche sites, revenue projections, relevant market research) should to contact me...

During a Skype chat with Sam Moorcroft of Christiancafe.com yesterday, he mentioned that they received a great shout-out on Britain’s Got Talent. Referencing Simon’s Cowell’s break with fiance ­Mezhgan Hussainy, when a pair of contestants said they had met on a website called Christiancafe.com,...

Here’s an update from the Online Dating Summit organizers. In addition to the CEO’s of WhiteLabelDating.com, Dating Factory, Mamboo, Mamba, Mail.ru Love, Twoo, and Smooch, Walter and Andreas have been able to add the following companies. Markus Frind, the CEO of PlentyOfFish Cecilia Francoli...

Keeping up with online dating news can be a chore, so I fired up my Paper.li account and added the top dating industry news sources, from Online Personals Watch to personally-curated Google News alerts and some hard-to-find gems from our twitter followers. Behold, the Online Dating Insider Curated Dating...

Keeping up with online dating news can be a chore, so I fired up my Paper.li account and added the top dating industry news sources, from Online Personals Watch to personally-curated Google News alerts and some hard-to-find gems from our twitter followers. Behold, the Online Dating Insider Curated Dating...

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1350a581b1e18229   Further top tier professional and  innovating entrepreneurs addressing the delegates will include Dr. Robert Wuttke (CEO & founder of be2), Martin Bysh (co-founder Smooch), Esther Camanes fromYahoo,  Heiko Kasper (SponsorMob), Alex...

Here’s a cautionary tale for all you online dating startups trying to out-Thread Thread. Part history lesson, part obituary, this one’s for the 10+ startups working in the  social  dating space. In recent years, the dating industry has focused first on niche sites, then it was all about...