The
Germans had tried to conquer the International Online Dating Industry with 4 proposals.
1)
Parship.
Nobody knows its brain, Dr. Hugo Schmale (81 years old?). Copycatted as
eCift in Turkey
2)
Be2. 13 Nov 2008 ...
Index Ventures has invested
Euros 15 million in be2 dot com ( not be2 dot net, another company)
3) FriendScout24
BQcheck. (BeziehungsQuotienten-Check ) Prof. Dr.
Manfred Hassebrauck is the brain behind that test.
4)
eDarling.
and those 4 proposals were/are HOAXES and big failures.
Those 4 failures are cases of study for "Stupid Investors' series"
The
founders from eDarling should had learned the lesson from
Be2:
Do not enter the Online Dating Industry if you cannot innovate in nothing. Remember eDarling is only a copycat of eHarmony. Remember eDarling
secret history:
2008 eDarling was
copycatted from eHarmony and
launched mainly in Germany, France and
Spain.
2010 eHarmony
gave its compatibility matching algorithm to
eDarling and received
30% stake.
eHarmony promised to buy the rest (70%) if eDarling could had conquered
Europe. eDarling never took off in any countries where it operates.
2012 The eHarmony's CEO
Jeremy Verba refused to acquire eDarling due to high operating loses
2013 eDarling
bought eHarmony's 30% stake for USD 30 million.
Recently
Vollmann is GAME OVER as
eDarling's CEO.
The Frenchs had launched
Meetic and MeeticAffinity (formerly
Ulteem) and they were partially (
81.07%) sold to the Americans (
IAC InterActive Corporation Nasdaq:IACI), but nor Meetic nor IAC can
revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
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The entire
Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a
HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low
effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than
10%).
Actual
online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods, when
calculating compatibility between prospective mates, have less or at
least the same precision as searching on one's own. [in the range of 3 or 4 persons compatible per 1,000 persons screened]
* That is because they use:
a) simplified versions of personality traits, instead of the 16PF5 or similar with the complete inventory (16 variables)
b)
inadequate quantitative methods to calculate compatibility between
prospective mates, like eHarmony which uses Dyadic Adjustment Scale or
other sites which use multivariate linear / logistic regression
equations o other equations.
The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
I)
Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate
choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not
long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II)
People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with
their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other
system that learns your preferences are useless)
III)
What is important in attracting people to one another may not be
important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high
level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term
mating with commitment.
Behavioural Matching Algorithms are all rubbish.
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!
The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry
is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different
languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with
exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals
(needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern
recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between
prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly
the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to
innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
