"Breaking the online dating sound barrier"

Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Billion Dollar Startup Club

http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/?co=SpaceX

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.

"Uber brings Series E to USD2.2 billion, has how raised over USD5 billion in venture funding"

USD5 billion in venture funding?
The Smart fortwo cost on average USD15,000
USD5 billion / USD15,000 = 333,333 cars!
With USD5 billion Uber could had bought 333,333 Smart fortwo cars!

Uber just added an additional USD1 billion?

http://vator.tv/news/2015-02-18-uber-just-added-an-additional-1b-seriously

"Uber brings Series E to USD2.2 billion, has how raised over USD5 billion in venture funding"

USD5 billion in venture funding?
The Smart fortwo cost on average USD15,000
USD5 billion / USD15,000 = 333,333 cars!
With USD5 billion Uber could had bought 333,333 Smart fortwo cars!

Incredible! Uber raises ANOTHER USD1.2 billion round!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/incredible-uber-raises-another-usd12.html

Please see:
Snapchat, raising another round at a USD16-USD19 billion valuation ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/snapchat-raising-another-round-at-usd16.html

How Fab went from a USD1 billion valuation to a USD15 million fire sale
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/how-fab-went-from-usd1-billion.html
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.

Article at Vator: The USD1B valuation club became super crowded in 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/article-at-vator-usd1b-valuation-club.html
With valuations jumping so high, the USD1 billion club is getting easier and easier to get into. In 2014 alone, 38 different companies entered the USD1 billion club, according to a report from CB Insights. That is more than the three previous years, when only 22 companies made it combined.

PAPER: An Improved Collaborative Recommendation System by Integration of Social Tagging Data

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14379-8_7#page-1

Abstract
Recently a lot of research efforts have been spent on building recommender systems by utilizing the abundant online social network data. In this study, we intend to enhance the recommendation accuracy via integrating social networking information with the traditional recommendation algorithms. To achieve this goal, we first propose a new user similarity metric that not only considers tagging activities of users, but also incorporates their social relationships such as friendship and membership, in measuring the closeness of two users. Then we define a new item prediction method which makes use of both user-to-user similarity and item-to-item similarity. Experimental outcomes on Last.fm data produce the positive results that show the accuracy of our proposed approach.

Please see also:
Constructing & Evaluating Context-Aware Recommender System in a case study with webshop carts and AB-testing
Master of Science Thesis in Algorithm, Language and Logic
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/212556/212556.pdf
PAPER VizRec: A Two-Stage Recommender System for Personalized Visualizations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/paper-vizrec-two-stage-recommender.html

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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-how-dating-companies-are-having.html

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!
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!

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf

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.

ABOUT FAKE profiles at Match Australia

Journalist investigation: "Abbotsford: The desperate and dateless capital of Australia"

So why Abbotsford? When creating a Match Australian site profile, the first region on the drop-down list is NSW. Next come the suburbs, arranged alphabetically … and guess which is first. Some new members may genuinely pick the wrong suburb, but many go for the first choice because they don’t know the geography of Australia. Some fakers pick the capital cities they’ve heard of instead.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/abbotsford-the-desperate-and-dateless-capital-of-australia/story-fnet0gly-1227223836372
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/over-25-million-lost-to-dating-and-romance-scams-in-2013

She added: “We look at the IP address and cross check if a user is in the place they claim to reside.” However, a friend last week created a blank profile from Australia on Match USA website claiming to be in Maryland, and it is still there at the time of writing. He did not conceal or fake his IP address, which fraudsters may do.

Do you remember?
"Evan Spencer, had said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match fail to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that her pictures were being used hundreds of times. "
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/china-to-go-after-fraud-on-online.html

Please see:
article about "Match turns 20 years old"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-about-match-turns-20-years-old.html

Match Group - IAC Q4 2014 and FY 2014 results.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/match-group-iac-q4-2014-and-fy-2014.html
IAC-InterActiveCorp (IACI) Q4 2014 - Earnings Call Transcript
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/iac-interactivecorp-iaci-q4-2014.html
"I read through the conference call. Lots of excuses and hand waving...they've already thrown in the towel on 2015 and are now trying to say 2016 will be the great year.
Tinder monetization testing is "solid" which is code for "much worse than we expected.""

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Rocket Internet AG. spin off its PR team.

http://www.wuv.de/agenturen/samwer_spin_off_rocket_internet_startet_eigene_werbeagentur

Nice move. Now RCKT PR Agency will receive huge amounts of money for its consultancy work in a big way to fool tax authorities.

Rocket Internet AG. / All ventures are created using a complex system of shell companies. /
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/rocket-internet-ag-all-ventures-are.html

Please see also
Terra Numerata! suspicious situation?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/terra-numerata-suspicious-situation.html

Stupid Investors' series: Today Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB)

article "How dating companies are having one-night stands with algorithms"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/17/how-dating-companies-are-having-one-night-stands-with-algorithms/

eHarmony, is a 14+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html

eHarmony is a 14+ years old obsolete site using Big Five traits to measure personality of its members, but the Big Five normative test that had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.

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. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/21pictures-which-uses-behavioral.html

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but 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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-online-dating-behind-science-of.html

Please read also
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity.
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html