Wednesday, April 30, 2014

BirthRightRomance is another FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.


 "Birth order theory and its proven impact on personality characteristics is utilized to help find you a compatible match based on your position in the family growing up (younger, older, middle, or only child)." IS A FALSE STATEMENT.

Birth order does not have enduring effects on personality!

Please see the paper:
Birth order and personality: A within-family test using independent self-reports from both firstborn and laterborn siblings (January 2014)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/birth-order-does-not-have-enduring.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913012142

MatchWise, Chemistry, PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, eVow, TeAmoRu  and other sites use/used the Birth Order Item, but it is useless at all for Serious Online Dating!

Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY.

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 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.


The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!
With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.
 

---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.

PAPER Portuguese online dating: exploring gender differences in self-presentations


New fresh paper: "Portuguese online dating: exploring gender differences in self-presentations"
http://www.teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/article/view/170/pdf_1


ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate gender differences in the construction of self-presentations in online dating profiles. 200 personal ads (100 men and 100 women) and 1006 photographs (485 of men and 521 of women) profiles were collected in Portugal from the dating site Meetic. The data was analyzed following a methodology strategy based on content analysis and grounded theory.
The findings revealed that, by means of a selective self-presentation, online daters try to please and attract potential partners. Men emphasize their rational and practical attributes and their cultural, professional, and economic status, whereas women value their emotional, and affective facets, and their inclination to dream. Women also emphasize their physical attributes more than men. Although it is possible to detect certain clues pointing toward modern gender roles, gender stereotypes persist.
The results of the study corroborate and extend previous findings, providing compelling evidence for gender differences in online dating self-presentations.  Furthermore,  the research led to an unexpected result: besides the attributes deemed most valuable, online daters also reveal individual characteristics that are not so positive or are even negative. The paper concludes by presenting some limitations and considerations for future research.



Please read also:
Traces of Deception in Online Dating Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/traces-of-deception-in-online-dating.html

Please remember:
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals: Search ("You can search for the person you want, but most probably that person does not exist or does not want to meet you because you are not compatible with him/her.")/ Matching based on Self-Reported Data - Bidirectional Recommendation Engines / Compatibility Matching Algorithms. Experience had shown serious daters never use social networking sites/applications for dating purposes and online daters belong to 3, 4, 5 or 6 online dating sites at the same time.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/facebook-is-not-primed-to-disrupt.html

Many C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations. They can cook a barbecue under the water, they are smoke sellers, but they are not going to innovate in nothing. They do not  pay attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Twitter 1st Quarter 2014 Results: net loss of USD 132 million!!!

 Twitter 1st Quarter 2014 Results
https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=843245
Revenue of USD 250 million
Net loss of USD 132 million!!!
"A social network / instant messaging blog based solely on a 140 characters lenght messages, for me, is now ending 2013, really obsolete, because you can read Google Plus and Facebook posts on real time using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets." I said last year.

Please read also:
Tinder, Chatroulette, Twitter and PlentyOfFish (POF) and tech space that is out of control
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/tinder-chatroulette-twitter-and.html
Twitter, operating at a loss since years.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/twitter-operating-at-loss-since-years.html
Zynga Q1 2014 net loss of USD61 million ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/zynga-q1-2014-net-loss-of-usd61-million.html
Zoosk S-1/A 1 AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/zoosk-s-1a-1-amendment-no1-to-form-s-1.html

Astonished to see how they show you like a success when it is a failure!

eHarmony Launching Job Service This Year ???


Please read before:
eHarmony entering the HR recruiting space YES or NO?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/eharmony-entering-hr-recruiting-space.html


At Global Dating Insights read the article
eHarmony Launching Job Service This Year
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/28042014-eharmony-launching-job-service-this-year/


but ...for matching job seekers with employers, the best predictor of job performance is always: personality!!!

The Wall Street Journal had published an interesting article about Xerox
"When looking for workers to staff its call centers, Xerox Corp. used to pay lots of attention to applicants who had done the job before. Then, a computer program told the printer and outsourcing company that experience doesn't matter. The software said that what does matter in a good call-center worker—one who won't quit before the company recoups its USD5,000 investment in training—is personality.


The same to detect real entrepreneurs for false entrepreneurs.



eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud. The same for sites like them, like Chemistry, another fraud in the Online Dating Industry.
The Big Five normative test that had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

and also normative tests can not simply be translated, because they need the norm for that test, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released and the cost of doing that is in the range of USD100,000 per language and norm.

All normative tests like Big Five, HEXACO, 16PF5 or similar like 15FQ+ to assess/measure personality should be used with the correct norm. e.g:
* English for the United Kingdom and the Norm for the United Kingdom (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United Kingdom).
* English for Ireland and the Norm for Ireland (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Ireland).
* English for Australia and the Norm for Australia (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Australia).
* English for New Zealand and the Norm for New Zealand (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of New Zealand)
* English for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada).
* English for South Africa and the Norm for South Africa (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of South Africa).
* English for United States and the Norm for United States (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of United States)


Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles,  the BIG Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test.

What Happens To Our Brain When We're In Love? by Dr. Helen Fisher

Just seen this article:
What Happens To Our Brain When We're In Love?  by Dr. Helen Fisher
http://capeandislands.org/post/what-happens-our-brain-when-were-love

Please read also:
WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT
and
remember:
big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-data-dating-is-not-key-to-long.html

Behavioural Recommender Systems CAN NOT outperform compatibility matching engines based on personality similarity.

Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless for serious online dating purposes and Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all! 

Sunday, April 27, 2014

EliteSingles UK (Affinitas GmbH.) VERSUS The Guinness World Records












http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/size/tallest-man-living
http://www.thetallestman.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-bunch-of-screenshots-from.html


Please see 11 suggested men from EliteSingles UK launched last July 2013 (less than a year ago). They are 7 feet and 7 inches tall or over!!!

Soter is 8 feet and 2 inches tall.
Slusari is 8 feet and 1 inch tall.
Rafaell is 8 feet tall.
Salah is 8 feet tall.
Virgllpop is 8 feet tall.
Peter is 7 feet and 10 inches tall.
Vin is 7 feet and 9 inches tall.
Raphael is 7 feet and 8 inches tall.
John is 7 feet and 8 inches tall.
Aurimas is 7 feet and 7 inches tall.
Marco is 7 feet and 7 inches tall.


I really URGENTLY recommend a complete independent audit in Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/i-recommend-complete-independent-audit.html

Affinitas GmbH. local lawyers in Argentina separated ?!?!




Just by chance discovered EVA (former Affinitas GmbH. local lawyers) separated in 2 firms:

ELZEN
and
VKLA

Not sure why.

Perhaps next week I will send an email to them and ask if any of the 2 firms is the lawyer of Rocket Internet GmbH. here in Argentina.

Please read:
Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html

Saturday, April 26, 2014

about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2





Here you can see more info
http://www.slideshare.net/BrandonTLuong/datelytics-pitch-deck
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/datelytics
https://angel.co/datelytics

Read part 1: about Datelytics, new social dating network.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating.html
and
LikeBright, same road as TheCompleteMe (LikeIt) ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/likebright-same-road-as-thecompleteme.html
LikeIt (TheCompleteMe) GAME OVER next April 30th 2013
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/likeit-thecompleteme-game-over-next.html

Social dating is vaporware.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. 
It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all! 

Friday, April 25, 2014

A new bunch of screenshots from EliteSingles UK.
























How Many 7 Feet Tall People Are In The World?
http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/08/11/how-many-7-feet-tall-people-are-in-the-world/

How Many 8 Feet Tall People Are In The World?
http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/07/31/how-many-8-foot-tall-people-are-in-the-world/


NEW FRESH Screenshots from EliteSingles UK. Very tall men, over 7 feet height!

The 7 feet (210 cm) tall dummy female profile I had created for test purposes only, last July 2013 received a new bunch of suggested partners.

9 suggested matches from 11th April to 23rd April 2014:
- Narcis, 37 years old, 7 feet and 5 inches tall
- Sunday, 34 years old, 7 feet
- Bright, 26 years old, 6 feet and 11 inches tall
- Ahmed, 28 years old, 6 feet and 8 inches tall
- pete, 32 years old, 6 feet and 10 inches tall
- Jhonny Espana, 26 years old, 7 feet
- Richard, 32 years old, 7 feet and 5 inches tall
- Elvis, 30 years old, 7 feet
- Ed, 34 years old, 6 feet and 11 inches tall

All of them are very tall men!

Suggested matches SHOULD have a similar personality pattern of the dummy female profile I had created for test purposes only
but
No one of them have a similar personality pattern of the dummy female profile I had created for test purposes only.
(Also remember Big Five normative test to measure personality of daters have been proven an incorrect and incomplete model of personality, now replaced by the HEXACO test, also known as Big Six test)

If you use Google to search for "men over 7 feet are very rare"
you will find an answer saying
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_are_7_feet_tall_in_the_world
"According to a scientific study there are 3 people 7 feet or taller for every 1 million people, so there are roughly 20,000 people over 7 feet tall. (In ALL the World)"

IF
EliteSingles suggested 5 men 7 feet or over in the range of age 25-40 years old from 11th April to 23rd April 2014
- Narcis, 37 years old, 7 feet and 5 inches tall
- Sunday, 34 years old, 7 feet
- Jhonny Espana, 26 years old, 7 feet
- Richard, 32 years old, 7 feet and 5 inches tall
- Elvis, 30 years old, 7 feet
that really means EliteSingles' sites should have a database of NEW + FRESH + ACTIVE + RECENTLY REGISTERED men of over 1.66 million men! (1,666,667 in the range of age 25-40 years old from 11th April to 23rd April 2014)


but from:

EliteSingles UK version site homepage says
18,000 NEW MEMBERS PER WEEK
Total number of new registrations on our Elite platforms.
Gender split of 56% women / 44% men.

AND

http://myip.ms/browse/sites/1/dns/9408/dnsii/9408
EliteSingles UK version, Website Popularity: 13,600 visitors per day

AND
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
Alexa shows EliteSingles UK version is NOT a high activity site, i.e. it can not take off!
Audience Geography for EliteSingles UK version. Where are this site's visitors located?
Country     Percent of Visitors   
United Kingdom     81.8%   
Germany                 11.3%   
United States           2.4%   

I really URGENTLY recommend a complete independent audit in Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/i-recommend-complete-independent-audit.html

Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972), nicknamed Shaq, is an USA retired basketball player, former rapper and current analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. Standing 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall.

Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons.
Listed height     6 ft 9 in (206 cm)


List of tallest players in National Basketball Association history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_players_in_National_Basketball_Association_history

about Datelytics, new social dating network


Datelytics is a new social dating network application to be launched soon.
It will be a "Stupid Investors' series" case of study. 

If man A likes playing cards and woman B also likes playing cards, that does not mean man A likes woman B, or woman B can like man A with the same intensity or interest. 

Social dating is vaporware.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. 
It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Please read also: Zoosk S-1/A 1 AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/zoosk-s-1a-1-amendment-no1-to-form-s-1.html

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.



Please read:
about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating_26.html

Thursday, April 24, 2014

A new mobile application at Match ???

Just read these 2 new articles
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/24042014-match-overhaul-mobile-app-adds-tinder-feature/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/taking-cues-from-tinder-match-com-launches-new-iphone-app/


IAC Q1 2014 results soon!
Perhaps you will be surprised to see Tinder is cannibalizing Match?
and this new application will replace Tinder when IAC decides to discretely bury  Tinder, like Zerodegrees circa 2004 and others like DownToEarth.

It seems Tinder is like Chatroulette but it will collapse like Skout.
Lots of persons want to use it, but nobody wants to pay for it.


Please read also:
IAC buys back 10% of Tinder at USD5B valuation ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/iac-buys-back-10-of-tinder-at-usd5b.html
Tinder Impostors – Story of My Stolen Identity by Kristin Shotwell
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/tinder-impostors-story-of-my-stolen.html

My answer to the Topeka Analysis: Why Investors Should NOT Be Enthusiastic About Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html

Tinder, Chatroulette, Twitter and PlentyOfFish (POF) and tech space that is out of control
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/tinder-chatroulette-twitter-and.html

When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (3 years ago) for an astronomical amount of money (USD 90 million), the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC Personals backed Tinder instead, as the copycat of Badoo, but it seems there is a divorce between Tinder and Match just now!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/match-vs-tinder-or-tinder-vs-match.html

If anyone can investigate further some IAC Personals' dating sites in decadence of users, like Match, Chemistry, Meetic and MeeticAffinity?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/match.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/match.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemistry.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meetic.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meeticaffinity.fr
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/okcupid.com/

Perhaps some of their sites reached operating ceiling!

C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete. Like eHarmony Plus (eH+) that costs USD 5,000!
eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia's Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).
The market remains enormous for new players. 

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.
 

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.

Zynga Q1 2014 net loss of USD61 million ?

http://vator.tv/news/2014-04-23-zynga-sees-double-digit-audience-growth-on-mobile-in-q1


Zynga Q1 2014 net loss of USD61 million ?
and
"Zynga is projecting revenue for Q2 2014 to be in the range of USD140 million to USD160 million, with a projected net loss of between USD75 and USD65 million."

Astonished to see how they show you like a success when it is a failure!

Some Internet companies are really bubbles like
Zoosk
Twitter
and others like Tinder as well?
never made a dime in profit!

There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).

Soon or later that bubble should explode!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Affinitas GmbH. launched EliteSingles South African version.

(As a matter of record only, not to promote the site)



just after EliteSingles Canada.
More info here:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://myip.ms/browse/sites/1/dns/9408/dnsii/9408


The Big Five normative test that had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

and also normative tests can not simply be translated, because they need the norm for that test, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released and the cost of doing that is in the range of USD100,000 per language and norm.

All normative tests like Big Five, HEXACO, 16PF5 or similar like 15FQ+ to assess/measure personality should be used with the correct norm. e.g:
* English for the United Kingdom and the Norm for the United Kingdom (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United Kingdom).
* English for Ireland and the Norm for Ireland (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Ireland).
* English for Australia and the Norm for Australia (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Australia).
* English for New Zealand and the Norm for New Zealand (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of New Zealand)
* English for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada).
* English for South Africa and the Norm for South Africa (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of South Africa).
* English for United States and the Norm for United States (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of United States)

Badoo slowly dying?

Badoo was redesigned last January, 4 months ago, but it seems .....   Badoo is slowly dying.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fbadoo.com


Please read also:
IPO Of The Dating App Everyone IS NOT Talking About
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/ipo-of-dating-app-everyone-is-not.html
Zoosk S-1/A 1 AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-1 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/zoosk-s-1a-1-amendment-no1-to-form-s-1.html

Tinder is demolishing Zoosk. Zoosk is NOT profitable and will never be profitable, it is only a bubble sustained by a big marketing budget. Investors had put over USD 61 Million and now want to recover that money and after that, they will put Zoosk to sleep.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/zoosk-6-six-long-years-operating-at-loss.html

Perhaps the same for Badoo,  Tinder is demolishing Badoo.

But please read my answer to the Topeka Analysis: Why Investors Should NOT Be Enthusiastic About Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html


Sunday, April 20, 2014

Rocket Internet's Samwer Brothers + AB Kinnevik + Tengelmann Ventures.




It was all written for years, just a matter of tying up loose ends.

This article was published 1 year ago by Alex Hofmann (Journalist)
"Rocket Internet's huge ambitions: to take down Ikea"

http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-wants-to-take-down-ikea
"the accelerator claims that almost all of its eCommerce ventures will be pushed to make billion-dollar turnovers and generate two-figure percentage returns on sales."

Big investments, big losses
http://venturevillage.eu/kinnevik-rocket-internet-investments
As for the young Latin American Amazon clone, Linio, 2017 is set to be a good year – with estimated revenues of €281m, the Samwers claim that the return on sales will be an impressive 12%. This is a clear sign of the Samwers’ huge and rather unrealistic ambitions: by comparison, the company’s US original, Amazon, makes just over 1% in returns.

Samwers locken Investoren mit aggressiven Wachstumsversprechen, uncovered confidential documents aimed at Rocket investors.
http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/it/a-895073.html

"It's no secret that Rocket Internet ventures need large funding amounts to launch: Manager magazine’s sources claim that South East Asian fashion portal Zalora made a loss of close to €70m last year, while furniture chain Home24 also has high deficits – in 2012 it made a loss of close to €40m, and a loss of around €43m is expected for 2013."
http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/it/a-895073.html
"Noch aber häufen die diversen Rocket-Internet-Unternehmen rund um den Globus allesamt hohe Anlaufverluste an. So machte allein das in Südostasien präsente Modeportal Zalora 2012 ein Minus von knapp 70 Millionen Euro, wie aus den Business-Plänen hervorgeht. Auch der in Europa und Lateinamerika tätige Möbelhändler Home24 arbeitet derzeit stark defizitär: 2012 stand ein Verlust in Höhe von rund 40 Millionen Euro an, für 2013 werden Einbußen von fast 43 Millionen Euro erwartet, so das manager magazin."


The top 10 biggest investors in Rocket Internet
http://venturevillage.eu/top-investors-rocket-internet

http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/tengelmann-ventures

Tengelmann weitet Rocket-Investment aus
http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/tengelmann-rocket-investment

Lamudi, Tengelmann investiert in Rockets Immobilienplattform
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/lamudi-rocket-tengelmann

Rocket Internet-Connection / Tengelmann Ventures investiert in Carmudi und Co.
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/04/17/tengelmann-ventures-investiert-carmudi-und-co/
EasyTaxi sammelte in den vergangenen Monaten bereits größere Millionensummen ein – unter anderem von iMENA Holdings, der Latin America Internet Holding und der African Internet Holding. Das Unternehmen ist momentan in rund 30 Ländern aktiv – darunter Argentinien, Pakistan und Thailand.

but see this article about EasyTaxi
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/easytaxi-argentina-and-yepdoc-brazil.html


Please read also:
a big pandemic of Brillant, Jade and Juwel companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-big-pandemic-of-brillant-jade-and.html

A very complicated interlace of "Jade xxxx GmbH." and "Brillant xxxx GmbH." companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-very-complicated-interlace-of-jade.html

They really deserve a police investigation just now!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/they-really-deserve-police.html

Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html

Who is paying all that fest? AB Kinnevik ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/about-kinneviks-holdings.html

Secret papers: How the Samwer bros. woo investors.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html

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A Journalist from the Wall Street Journal, talking about the "famous Samwer bros. clone empire", asked me: "I am not quite sure what you’re referring to when you say it is all just a ponzi scheme and the Samwers are committing a crime. Start-up companies in general aren’t profitable but hope to be at one stage."
I replied: That is exactly the problem. Their start-up companies are not designed to be profitable, and as they are copycats of U.S. companies, the main purpose is to be sold to the original company they had copycatted OR if they fail to do so, to plan the IPO in order to recover the money they had invested!.
They always make unrealistic projections of sales: "For the Brazilian Amazon clone Linio the Samwers offer a return of 12 percent in 2017. The Amazon model generates 1.1 percent."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
I suspect no one of the cloned companies by Samwer Bros. are really profitable or sustainable for the next 5 years, to until 2019 at least; and as they will not be able to sell to the original company they had copycatted, as they failed to sell Affinitas GmbH. to eHarmony Inc. last March 2012 and as the Management Team can not innovate in nothing because they are not entrepreneurs, they will collapse. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

Please see by your own Rocket Internet Ventures in Brazil
ClickBus   http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/clickbus.com.br
Dafiti http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.br
CupoNation http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cuponation.com.br
Airu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/airu.com.br
HelloFood http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hellofood.com.br  (called FoodPanda in other countries)
EasyTaxi http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/easytaxi.com operating also in several countries
Kanui http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kanui.com.br
Tricae  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tricae.com.br
Mobly http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mobly.com.br
PayLeven http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/payleven.com.br
ZocPrint http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zocprint.com.br
WestWing http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westwing.com.br
Wimdu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wimdu.com.br
21diamonds http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/21diamonds.com.br
BlueCircle http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bluecircle.com.br
GlossyBox, closed last year.  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/glossybox.com.br
YepDoc ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yepdoc.com.br
DropGifts ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dropgifts.com.br