Rocket Internet AG. Urgent IPO / part 2

In Berlin, Technology Companies Search For Elusive Exits
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/07/31/berlin-technology-companies-exit-ipo/
“We know that our companies will need to go public,” said Lorenzo Grabau the CEO of Swedish investment firm Kinnevik , which is the largest shareholder in Zalando. “From our point of view, it’s not if they go public, it’s when they go public.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/07/31/samwer-brothers-billionaires-rocket-internet-ipo/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susancunningham/2013/12/31/rocket-internets-asian-adventures/

A big Ponzi Scheme ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/a-big-ponzi-scheme.html
I suspect no one of those companies are designed to be profitable ever.
They have big losses because they sell below cost to gain traction.
All cloned companies seem like bubbles.  

They are full (in excess) of phantom companies, shell companies.
And not only they have lots of phantom companies, shell companies. There is a very complicated and intriguing interlace of them. (very suspicious situation)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html


Please read also:
article: Oliver Samwer will die nächsten 25 Jahre weiter ackern
My guess: A person saying "I will stay for the next 25 years" means "I will run away in less than 25 months ahead"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-oliver-samwer-will-die-nachsten.html
Rocket Internet AG. Urgent IPO before running out of money?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internet-ag-urgent-ipo-before.html

The most exclusive club in the tech startup world is expanding ?

http://qz.com/242549/the-most-exclusive-club-in-the-tech-startup-world-is-expanding/
For me, it is only a "smoke bubble"

Please read:
Twitter 2nd Quarter 2014 Results: net loss of USD 145 million!!! 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/twitter-2nd-quarter-2014-results-net.html

Silicon Valley needs to step outside Silicon Valley, article at Vator
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/silicon-valley-needs-to-step-outside.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

Twitter 2nd Quarter 2014 Results: net loss of USD 145 million!!!

Accumulated deficit of over USD 1.27 Billion.
    Q2 revenue of USD 312 million, up 124% year-over-year
    Q2 net loss of USD 145 million and non-GAAP net income of USD 15 million
    Q2 GAAP EPS of (USD0.24) and non-GAAP EPS of USD0.02
    Q2 adjusted EBITDA of USD54 million, representing an adjusted EBITDA margin of 17%
Astonished to see how they show you like a success when it is a failure!
I see a tech space that is out of control.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/tech-space-that-is-out-of-control.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.
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).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/internet-trends-report-2014-from-kpcb.html

Please see:
Twitter 1st Quarter 2014 Results: net loss of USD 132 million!!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/twitter-1st-quarter-2014-results-net.html
Silicon Valley needs to step outside Silicon Valley, article at Vator
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/silicon-valley-needs-to-step-outside.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

Report about Q2 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)

IAC/InterActiveCorp's (IACI) CEO on Q2 2014 Results - Press Release
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2359125-iac-interactivecorps-iaci-ceo-on-q2-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1880875-iac-interactive-misses-by-0_02-misses-on-revenue


For me; it is clear they acquired FriendScout24 (old and obsolete site) and HowAboutWe (as gift) because they do not want to innovate. They want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the daters.

When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (3 years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, 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! Perhaps the IAC will "discretely bury" Tinder soon, it will absorb it and merge with Match mobile (with Stream and Mixer features) as soon as possible.

Please see this information from Alexa and Compete, they show their sites reached operating ceiling!
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/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/friendscout24.de

Please read also:

about the recent interview with the CEO of Match Group
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/interview-with-ceo-of-match-group.html

Report about Q1 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/report-about-q1-2014-iac-nasdaq-iaci.html

OkCupid lied to users about their love matches, calling it an “experiment” ?

http://gigaom.com/2014/07/28/ok-cupid-lied-to-users-about-their-love-matches-calling-it-an-experiment/
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/
OkCupid told people who weren’t compatible that they were a romantic match, as an A/B test to see if users bought it.

On Monday 28th July 2014, OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder told the world – surprise! – just like Facebook, the company has been experimenting on its users. The gist of the post was, “You know how mad you were at Facebook? Well we did it too!”

Do you remember the "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" article ?
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/okcupid-flawed-article.html
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The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms. No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven. 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%). In the same range as searching by your own.


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.
Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 



 

How facial features drive our first impressions

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28512781
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/07/140728_ciencia_rasgos_faciales_primeras_impresiones_np.shtml

FULL paper:
Modeling first impressions from highly variable facial images
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1409860111.abstract

Please see also:
http://www.alittlelab.com/

Soul2Match, FindYourFaceMate, "FaceReader from Profiler1: Personality Traits analysis based on facial features." and other dating sites with biometric software which analyzes facial features and bone structure, helping to detect levels of soulmate love and friendship like the Digital Physiognomy software.

"Generalization in mate choice copying in humans"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/generalization-in-mate-choice-copying.html

article: 7 Things Your Face Says About You
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/article-7-things-your-face-says-about.html

Match To Use Facial Recognition For Better Matches ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/match-to-use-facial-recognition-for.html

They are useless for the Online Dating Industry.
Do you want to know why?
Here are the answers:

Profiling by music preferences to assess personality
video preferences to assess personality
color preferences to assess personality
bookmarks preferences to assess personality
handwriting analysis to assess personality
purchases and buying trends from credit cards to assess personality
facial features to assess personality
and other methods like them add distortion to the measurement.
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Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!   
LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

Executive Interview: Jana Bayad, CEO of SingldOut via GDI

http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/28072014-executive-interview-jana-bayad-ceo-of-singldout/

The CEO is NOT HONEST because "SingldOut Offers Genetic Matchmaking" but ...
that proposal is a HOAX, a big FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.
Genetic Matchmaking is mainly  based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,
and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
and
2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
1) "Human oestrus" Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

2) "Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
".. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity."
................
"...., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women's mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/about-dna-matching-instant-chemistry.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/more-about-dna-matching-instant.html

What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
"Opposites attract but then they attack", Dr Buckwalter's dixit.
Persons with opposites characteristics feel attraction between them for short_term mating.
Persons with similar characteristics are more suitable/qualified for long_term mating.
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2008/04/science-of-love.html

As per the personality test used in the SingldOut site, most probably it is a IPSATIVE test quite similar to the one used at "Butterflies Again" dating site circa 2008.
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/09/dating-site-personality-testing-smackdown/

Please see also:
WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/we-have-chemistry-not.html

PAPER The common neural bases between sexual desire and love
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/paper-common-neural-bases-between.html

BrainDesire
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/braindesire.html

Chemistry, 6 years from its genesis.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/12/chemistry-6-years-from-its-genesis.html

10 years ago, during December 2004, Dr. Helen Fisher was contacted by the people from Match to create Chemistry, the last innovation at Match, a compatibility matching method.

I remember I had seen two draft papers from Chemistry:
The first clearly shows:
a) that Chemistry has a low successful "1.2.3 MEET in person step-by-step process", low successful first meeting rate for its members.b) its matching method only reported early stage attraction between prospective mates and after the first meeting; in some persons attraction reduces its level OR worse even, morphs/metamorphoses to rejection. i.e. it is working only for short term mating!!!

The second shows:
a) the high serotonin type (Builder) who is attracted to people like themselves and the high dopamine type (Explorer) who also is attracted to people like themselves, could be looking for a LONG term romantic relationship.
and
b) the high estrogen Negotiator who is attracted to the high testosterone Director and vice versa, could be looking for a SHORT term romantic relationship.

The persons who use Chemistry, meet in person, and after that want to continue dating, is only a very small percentage of them. Less than 6% reach the first meeting in person stage. Of that 6% who reach the first meeting in person stage, not known exactly the percentage of persons who want to continue dating, but I suspect it is very low.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/about-dna-matching-instant-chemistry.html


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html 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.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/top-86-tips-from-idate-2013-cologne-koln.html The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms. No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven. 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%). In the same range as searching by your own. The Online Dating Industry needs a major cataclysm to extinguish the big, old and obsolete dinosaurs. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/internet-trends-report-2014-from-kpcb.html

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.
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

 

The Future Of Internet Dating Interview

http://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2014/07/the-future-of-internet-dating.html

Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish. They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/idate-mark-brooks-mobile-dating-presentation.html

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
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.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).

The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/top-86-tips-from-idate-2013-cologne-koln.html
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
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%). In the same range as searching by your own.
The Online Dating Industry needs a major cataclysm to extinguish the big, old and obsolete dinosaurs.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/internet-trends-report-2014-from-kpcb.html

Please read: Why Online Dating Is Dying and Why It's a Good Thing!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/article-why-online-dating-is-dying-and.html


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.
Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-what-online-dating-sites-can.html

State of Social Media in LATAM countries 2014

comScore Report

The State of Social Media in Latin America and the Metrics that Really Matter
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2014/The-State-of-Social-Media-in-Latin-America-and-the-Metrics-that-Really-Matter

Women "more social" than men
Measuring what matters in Social Media: Engaged Audience and not just Fans, Followers and Actions.
Social Audience should be Loyal.
Photos consistently drive content performance across top pages in LatAm countries during 2014.
Status and Link posts saw a dip in engagement.
78% of posts at Facebook were photos, with 88% engagement driven by those posts.
Badoo is the only social network mentioned in the report.
Nor Zoosk, nor AreYouInterested, nor Tinder, nor HowAboutWe are mentioned.


The Simpsons, Apple, NetFlix, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, YouTube, Blogger, Wikipedia, Bing, Twitter, Skype are BIG successes, here,  in Argentina!!!
I have the theory that if something is successful in Argentina, it could be a success in the World.
If it can NOT be a success here in Argentina, it will definitely NOT be a success in the World. NO online dating company (for serious daters) has success here in Argentina nor Brazil or other Latin American country. 

Please see also:
2013 Latin America Digital Future in Focus Report by comScore  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/2013-latin-america-digital-future-in.html
Brazil Digital Future in Focus 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/brazil-digital-future-in-focus-2014.html

compare to
U.S.A. Digital Future in Focus 2014 (comScore Report)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/usa-digital-future-in-focus-2014.html

and please see also:
South American Market / 2 tips
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/south-american-market-2-tips.html

ComScore report: Mobile Path to Purchase
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/comscore-report-mobile-path-to-purchase.html

Latin American countries digital future 2012!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/latin-american-countries-digital-future.html
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Social dating is vaporware. Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

USD40 million for EasyTaxi? but Kinnevik wants to recover over Euros 1 billion

Rocket Internet’s EasyTaxi Raises USD40M Series D To Expand In Asia, Latin America
http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/26/rocket-internets-easy-taxi-raises-40m-series-d-to-expand-in-asia-latin-america/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/easytaxi-argentina-and-yepdoc-brazil.html
Study Finds Shoppers Prefer Brick-And-Mortar Stores to Amazon and EBay
http://www.forbes.com/sites/barbarathau/2014/07/25/report-amazons-got-nothing-on-brick-and-mortar-stores/

a new social dating application called Thread that was a old one?

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2010/03/thread-offers-matchmaker-rewards/
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/threadcom/
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/smallbusiness/thread_facebook_dating/index.htm?section=money_smbusiness
Thread Ist Kaput
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/02/threadcom-ist-kaput.html

Now a new social dating application called Thread is going to be launched soon? 
http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2014/07/23/zach-dells-startup-thread-is-a-dating-site-just-for-college-students/

Social dating is vaporware.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/about-grouper-shutters-international.html
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".

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-about-massive-growth-in-dating.html
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

In the famous blitzkrieg email, when Oliver Samwer wrote

" i do not accept surprises. i want this planned confirmed by all three of you: you must sign it with your blood." he is desperately demanding more commitment claiming more compromise from Managing Directors with the companies they are managing but ... Samwer brothers pay too much to Managing Directors, in the range of Euros 120,000 per year! and they no not give many shares of those companies. (and my bet, as Managing Directors know in advance no one of those companies are designed to be profitable ever and will not be bought by the original company they had copied, as eHarmony Inc, refused to acquire the 100% stake in Affinitas GmbH. last May 2012, they can only drain huge salaries for 4 or 5 years before leaving).
"The pressure is intense on the start-up managers, who are usually paid a salary and do not receive a major stake in the company they operate."
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/in-confidential-email-samwer-describes-online-furniture-strategy-as-a-blitzkrieg/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/technology/copycat-business-model-generates-genuine-global-success-for-start-up-incubator.html


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/samwer-brothers-pay-too-much-to.html
those Managing Directors are not entrepreneurs, they are smoke sellers, and although they can cook a barbecue under the water, they can not innovate in nothing.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internet-ag-urgent-ipo-before.html

More Juicy Information from Affinitas GmbH. balance report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/more-juicy-information-from-affinitas.html


Seven Balance Sheets Rocket Internet clone empire and companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/seven-balance-sheets-rocket-internet.html


ZALANDO 2012 balance
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/zalando-2012-balance.html

Rocket Internet AG. Urgent IPO before running out of money?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rockets-in-iran-die-iranischen-rocket.html
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/rocket-internet-ipo-frankfurt
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/07/21/40-dinge-ueber-oliver-samwer/
http://online.wsj.com/articles/germanys-rocket-internet-eyes-possible-frankfurt-ipo-1406126502
http://www.goingpublic.de/rocket-internet-erstes-deutsches-mega-ipo-2014/

Dafiti lost Euros 72.9 Million during 2013 in Latam countries!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/dafiti-lost-euros-729-million-during.html

article: Oliver Samwer will die nächsten 25 Jahre weiter ackern
My guess: A person saying "I will stay for the next 25 years" means "I will run away in less than 25 months ahead"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-oliver-samwer-will-die-nachsten.html 

Rocket Internet’s Oliver Samwer responds to critics ahead of IPO ? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internets-oliver-samwer-responds.html
Rocket Internet AG. Q2 2014 financials via AB Kinnevik 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internet-ag-q2-2014-financials.html

A big Ponzi Scheme ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/a-big-ponzi-scheme.html
I suspect no one of those companies are designed to be profitable ever.
They have big losses because they sell below cost to gain traction.
All cloned companies seem like bubbles.  
 
They are full (in excess) of phantom companies, shell companies.
And not only they have lots of phantom companies, shell companies. There is a very complicated and intriguing interlace of them. (very suspicious situation)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html

article about Massive Growth In Dating Apps

published by Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/search-for-love-sparks-dating-app-growth-2014-7

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
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".


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.
Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

NEW paper: "Recommender System"

http://ijcsmc.com/docs/papers/July2014/V3I7KJ10.pdf
Abstract-  One of the major data mining applications is Recommender System. It is the intelligent system that basically investigate the dataset present in existing system and based on which it will give some suggestions to the user  regarding  further  process.  These  recommender  systems  are  generally  application  specific  and  work  on certain parameters. In this present work we define a hybrid recommender system for the movies ranking. A movie based recommender system suggests the user about the movie that he should rank after performing the intelligent analysis. In this present work, we are defining three dimensions to get the concept of hybridization. This kind of dataset  having two main  dimensions  called  users,  movies  and  the  relationship. The  first level  analysis  will  be based on user side where the content based weighted similarity analysis will be performed. Once the similar users will be identified, the next work is performed on movie side. The similar movies based on different aspects are identified  using  content  based  weighted  analysis.  At  the  third  level,  the  similarity  analysis  between  the relationships  is  identified  using  collaborative  analysis.  To  perform  the  collaborative  analysis,  correlation coefficient  will  be  used.  Once  these  three  level  analysis  will  be  completed,  the  next  work  is  to conclude  the relationship using weighted approach. The weightage will be applied all three methods and obtain the analysis.
Another improvement  here defined  is the analysis  under the temporal  vector.  It  means,  instead of  analysis  on whole dataset, the dataset in same time domain will be considered only. The work will be implemented in Matlab environment.

Please read:
Some new and fresh PAPERS from The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR 2014 CONFERENCE
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/some-new-and-fresh-papers-from-37th.html

Please remember:
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) 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/paper-clustering-based-online-learning.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/more-new-and-fresh-papers-about.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.
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!  

article: "What Online Dating Sites Can and Can’t Give You"

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/close-encounters/201407/what-online-dating-sites-can-and-can-t-give-you
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/close-encounters/201407/what-online-dating-sites-can-and-can-t-give-you/comments


C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
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.

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

Messaging Secrets From eHarmony And OKCupid Databanks ?

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3031752/messaging-secrets-from-eharmony-and-okcupid-databanks

Please read also:
Predicting User Replying Behavior on a Large Online Dating Site
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/predicting-user-replying-behavior-on.html

Big Data & Analytics Heroes: from eHarmony ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/big-data-analytics-heroes-from-eharmony.html

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


Unfortunately eHarmony, is a 14 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ibisworld-analyst-eharmony-is-forecast.html
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.

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
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.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).

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. 
 

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

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




 Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

Rocket's in Iran (Die iranischen Rocket-Ventures, mit denen Rocket nichts zu tun hat )

a big pandemic of Brillant, Jade and Juwel companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-big-pandemic-of-brillant-jade-and.html
They are full (in excess) of phantom companies, shell companies.
And not only they have lots of phantom companies, shell companies. There is a very complicated and intriguing interlace of them. (very suspicious situation)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html

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"If your looking for Rocket's in Iran, you'll need to go straight to MEIH (Middle East Internet Holding), but that's in Luxembuorg. Knock on the door of Stenbeck Castle (7 Avenue JP Pescatore). There you will find Christian Senitz the International CFO for Rocket Internet. He will introduce you to young Ramtin. He'll take you straight to Tehran where you will meet Romak (Ideh Novin Tejarat Romak). There you will find the Rocket cache - Bamilo, Mozando, Bolofood, and now another Taxi Yaab.
It's the next big thing."
https://www.facebook.com/Zalorians/posts/565617956882365
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/rocket-internet-mtn-iran
http://excitingcommerce.de/category/samwer-report/
https://www.facebook.com/Zalorians?ref=stream&fref=nf#
https://www.facebook.com/notes/zalorians/wimdu-dont-ask-dont-tell/535599109884250
http://excitingcommerce.de/2014/07/18/kinnevik-meldet-mega-verluste-fur-rocket-internet-beteiligungen/

More about DNA matching Instant Chemistry and SingldOut partnership

Dave Evans have recently blogged about
"SingldOut Offers Genetic Matchmaking"

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2014/07/singldout-offers-genetic-matchmaking/
The proposal is a HOAX, a big FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/singldout-genes-find-romantic-match-article-1.1871118
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698547/Using-DNA-perfect-mate-New-dating-site-uses-DNA-tests-gauge-biological-compatibility.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/15/dna-online-dating-instant-chemistry/12633415/

See my reviews of: Basisnote (2009), GenePartner (2008), ScientificMatch (2011)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/basisnote-genepartner-scientificmatch.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/about-instant-chemistry-canadian-based.html


Instant Chemistry is mainly / only based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,
and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
and
2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
1) "Human oestrus" Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

2) "Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
".. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity."
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"...., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women's mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women." 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/about-dna-matching-instant-chemistry.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/is-genetic-testing-future-of-online.html

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

Dafiti lost Euros 72.9 Million during 2013 in Latam countries!

Logistics costs and distances in Argentina make it difficult to offer free shipping in cheap products.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1707422-envio-sin-costo-un-beneficio-escaso-en-el-ecommerce-local
In Internet shopping, some products are coming into Argentina from another continent at no cost (perhaps from Alibaba).
Why free shipping is not common in Argentina ? It constitutes a barrier to the development of eCommerce locally.
For instance, Dafiti in Argentina sends free shipping if you buy over ARS299 pesos (in the range USD28-USD32), less than the average sale ticket of the site.  (Dafiti losses money sending a free shipping delivery in Argentina because it fixed a low level, perhaps to gain traction. PREDATORY PRICES)


Please remember:
If you want to replicate a big success in Brazil, it will be as hard as the same to replicate it in all European countries, but in this case with 1/8 of population and the majority of the persons DO NOT own or WILL NOT use a credit/debit card to buy online! They will prefer to research online and then buy offline.

Many if not most, USA, Canada or European businesses models are inviable unfeasible in Latin American countries!

Perhaps the same situation for Africa, Russia or even Australia.
(transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than Europe

e.g. If you buy a pair of shoes from Dafiti, it seems Dafiti is selling below cost to gain traction, so Dafiti is going to lose money selling that pair of shoes, and if Dafiti delivers that pair of shoes to your house for free, the fee of the courier in Argentina or Brazil could be 10 times the fee of the same courier in Germany or Sweden.)
 
All European countries fit in Brazil or Australia,
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/all-european-countries-fit-in-brazil-or.html


Big investments, big losses
http://theheureka.com/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  1.1% in returns.http://theheureka.com/rocket-internet-wants-to-take-down-ikea 
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. 

http://theheureka.com/edarling-managing-director-leaves
http://theheureka.com/post-split-from-eharmony-germanys-edarling-announces-uk-and-ireland-expansion
http://theheureka.com/end-of-the-affair-germanys-edarling-buys-back-stake-from-eharmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internets-samwer-brothers-ab.html

Please read also:
Rocket Internet AG. Q2 2014 financials via AB Kinnevik
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internet-ag-q2-2014-financials.html

article: Oliver Samwer will die nächsten 25 Jahre weiter ackern
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-oliver-samwer-will-die-nachsten.html
A person saying "I will stay for the next 25 years" means "I will run away in less than 25 months ahead"