article: The rise and fall of Rocket Internet SE in India

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/vAyyprE8XgyLBDjDxtKjbN/The-rise-and-fall-of-Rocket-Internet-in-India.html
Rocket Internet has fallen in prominence as quickly as it had risen—and no other market illustrates that decline more than India.
Since the start of 2016, Rocket Internet has sold Jabong and FabFurnish in a fire sale. Its other holdings Foodpanda and Printvenue are struggling to survive.

Rocket Internet SE is a Germany-based Internet conglomerate that copies business models proven in the US or China and adapts them to high-potential markets outside those two countries. The idea is simple: copy the original, hire young, hungry consultants and finance professionals as so-called founders to run the company, deploy massive amounts of capital to grow fast and overtake incumbents in two years or so, and sell at an attractive price.

Copy, adapt, hire (founders), overtake, sell.

Repeat.


Bad Q2 2016 for Rocket Internet SE? via AB Kinnevik.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/bad-q2-2016-for-rocket-internet-se-via.html

Do you know that ALL European countries fit in Brazil, Russia, Africa or Australia?
It means: 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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-very-complicated-interlace-of-jade.html
 

Many if not most, USA, Canadian or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries, African countries, Russia or even Australia because transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than in Europe. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/rocket-internets-ceo-oliver-samwer-on.html
  All the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money!   
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/a-former-employee-of-affinitas-gmbh.html

Perhaps, as predicted, CoffeeMeetsBagel (CMB), to run out of money and close soon?

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2016/08/trending-business-qa-with-coffee-meets-bagel-coo.html

    
    The app is not yet profitable but COO said the app is now seeing a double digit monthly revenue growth. (My bet: It will never be profitable)
    CMB plans to expand into China and Korea. (They could also launch in Mars or the Moon, will be the same as China and Korea)

Please remember, the USD 30 Million offer from Mark Cuban at SharkTank was only as a joke. Cuban was not interested at all in CoffeeMeetsBagel (CMB) because he had previously funded another competitor called Courtem.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/dave-it-is-not-coffeemeetsbagel-it.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/coffeemeetsbagel-to-run-out-of-money.html
Stupid Investors' series: Today Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/stupid-investors-series-today-coffee.html

WSJ article: Dating-Website Users Fall Prey to Fake Profiles

Accounts created with photos of real people are increasingly being used to lure victims to send ‘loans’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/dating-website-users-fall-prey-to-fake-profiles-1472680583
There's a new trend in dating: crime rings and fraudsters who are targeting U.S. victims via phony dating profiles on popular sites like Match, PlentyOfFish (POF) and others.
A fast-growing breed of global internet crime is revealing a troubling trend: Some fraudsters are easily infiltrating popular dating sites to fleece people out of their savings, law-enforcement officials say.

Tinder safe dating spam uses safety to scam users out of money (via Symantec Official Blog)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/tinder-safe-dating-spam-uses-safety-to.html


Law article suggests USA FTC goes for Match Group ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/law-article-suggests-usa-ftc-goes-for.html
about the article "Match Subscribers Unsuccessful In Breaking Up With Dating App"
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/about-article-match-subscribers.html
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/complaints-about-match-dot-com.html

Match subscriptions are automatically renewed, making breaking up with the website a tedious undertaking.

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Remember? In the case of Yuliana Avalos and Melissa Midwest former 2014 big lawsuit againts MATCH GROUP, third-party scammers in Africa or wherever were creating fake profiles and catfishing with them. 
IAC and MATCH GROUP were essentially aware of that situation and did nothing to stop it. 
The USA Court ruled that IAC and MATCH GROUP were not responsible. 
Attorney Evan Spencer, said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, MATCH GROUP failed to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that her pictures were being used hundreds of times. Yuliana Avalos has argued in a former 2014 big lawsuit against Match that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/exclusive-match-group-hacked-leaked.html   
 
ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html

article: Compatibility: It’s Not What You Think It Is / via eHarmonyBlog

http://www.eharmony.com/blog/compatibility-think
http://www.eharmony.com/why/dating-relationship-compatibility/
also "Why You Should Ditch Your ‘Type’"
http://www.eharmony.com/blog/why-you-should-ditch-your-type/

Please see also:
Compatibility 2013 explained by eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/compatibility-2013-explained-by-eharmony.html

eHarmony at Big Data Innovation Summit September 8 & 9, Boston, 2016 ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eharmony-at-big-data-innovation-summit.html
and
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/shamrock-affinitas-gmbh-painting-it-all.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/can-eharmony-inc-sue-elitesingles-usa.html
eHarmony is a 16  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.

Moreover eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia; also TeAmo in Russia is another copycat of eHarmony. eSynchrony in Singapore, MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.

BIG DATA DATING is not the key to long-lasting romance.

Please remember:
COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
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!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

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.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

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"
 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo. 

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites

Like Match Group?
*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-makes-match-groups.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1686980/super-hacking-group-which-exposed-ashley-madison-users-details-could-smash-social-media-giants/

AshleyMadison should close forever.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-security-protocols.html
Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/new-article-ashleymadison-threatened-to.html
It seems no one trust AshleyMadison any more because it seems they STILL use fembots. 
Cheaters will use Tinder instead.  

Law article suggests USA FTC goes for Match Group ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/law-article-suggests-usa-ftc-goes-for.html
USA Federal regulators are returning to the online dating world, and this time, they have a bigger industry player in their sights.
 
USA FTC: No more automatic rebilling in USA for Online Dating sites? Sooner than expected?
Thanks to AshleyMadison scandal (AshleyMadison threatened to expose customers who disputed bills and not its hacking incident) all the Online Dating Industry will suffer an earthquake.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/ashleymadison-used-chatbots-to-lure.html

article: What Makes Match Group's Business Model So Powerful ???

There are a number of reasons why Match Group should be able to deliver steady profit growth in the coming years.
http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/27/what-makes-match-groups-business-model-so-powerful.aspx

Good for short term, bad for long term.
 
- Why IAC Keeps a Foot in the Door of Match Group MTCH = BIG DEBT
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/why-iac-keeps-foot-in-door-of-match.html 
The Match Group overpaid for PlentyOfFish (It was insane, USD575 Million for PlentyOfFish that past its prime 2+ years ago). 
http://investorplace.com/2016/07/match-group-inc-mtch-stock-is-a-horrible-hook-up/
"There are other big problems with MTCH stock. It is loaded with debt — almost USD1.2 billion of it. It is trying to refinance some of that debt with a USD400 million bond offering, but the rate is effectively in junk territory — 6.375%. It has USD1.3 billion of goodwill on its balance sheet from all of its acquisitions, almost a third of its market cap."
  
- The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe, PlentyOfFish and many more and all of them are past their primes, reached operating ceiling and they are in decadence.  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/research-about-use-of-dating-apps.html 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/mtch-match-group-q2-2016.html
Tinder statement about spam bots invasion
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/tinder-statement-about-spam-bots.html
*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

- Be alerted USA FTC goes for Match Group, perhaps no more automatic rebilling clause soon!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/law-article-suggests-usa-ftc-goes-for.html

 
- BAD PRESS for Match Group
articles about: Florida dad killed after PlentyOfFish (POF) robbery set up
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/articles-about-florida-dad-killed-after.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html

eHarmony at Big Data Innovation Summit September 8 & 9, Boston, 2016 ?

https://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2016/schedule

PAPER "A New Similarity Measure Based on Mean Measure of Divergence for Collaborative Filtering in Sparse Environment"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/paper-new-similarity-measure-based-on.html

eHarmony: Engineers try to get to the heart of true love
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eharmony-engineers-try-to-get-to-heart.html

Big Data use cases at Plenty of Fish ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/big-data-use-cases-at-plenty-of-fish.html

eHarmony Mapping Love with Hadoop ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html

eHarmony is a 16  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eh-eharmony-plus-is-forbidden-new-in.html
Moreover eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia; also TeAmo in Russia is another copycat of eHarmony. eSynchrony in Singapore, MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.

BIG DATA DATING is not the key to long-lasting romance.
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"
 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.  

PAPER "A New Similarity Measure Based on Mean Measure of Divergence for Collaborative Filtering in Sparse Environment"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050916311644


PAPER "A new similarity measure using Bhattacharyya coefficient
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/paper-new-similarity-measure-using.html
PAPER: Using Personality Enhanced Item-Based Recommender System for Cold Start
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/paper-using-personality-enhanced-item.html
PAPER CS224W Final Report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/paper-cs224w-final-report.html
PAPER User Similarity Adjustment for Improved Recommendations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/paper-user-similarity-adjustment-for.html
PAPER: A Collaborative Filtering Recommender Algorithm Based on Privacy Preserving
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/paper-collaborative-filtering.html

FAILED and BIASED article "Mathematician reveals formula to find a perfect mate"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/failed-and-biased-article-mathematician.html
BBC article: "The mathematical formula for love"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/bbc-article-mathematical-formula-for.html
The NEW era of Personality Based Recommender Systems
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/10/new-era-of-personality-based.html
eHarmony: Engineers try to get to the heart of true love
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eharmony-engineers-try-to-get-to-heart.html

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.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry.  Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?

The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
The innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html
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.
 
The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
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!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

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.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

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"
 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.  
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Please see: "How to calculate personality similarity between users"
Short answer: the key is the ENSEMBLE!
(the whole set of different valid possibilities)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/how-to-calculate-personality-similarity.html
For online dating applications and personality based recommenders persons/daters are "distinguishable" and not "exchangeable".
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-on-similarity-between.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/paper-enhanced-user-modeling-based-on.html

PAPER Evaluation of Similarity Functions
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html 
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
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-how-dating-companies-are-having.html 

article: Bots roam the internet, threatening businesses and consumers

These machines are making dating scams even more dangerous
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/bots-roam-internet-threatening-businesses-and-consumers-082616.html

Good Bots, Bad Bots: Changing the Way We Approach Cybersecurity?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/good-bots-bad-bots-changing-way-we.html

USA FTC: No more automatic rebilling in USA for Online Dating sites?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/usa-ftc-no-more-automatic-rebilling-in.html

Article: "The app boom is over. Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/article-app-boom-is-over-your-phone-is.html

Tinder statement about spam bots invasion
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/tinder-statement-about-spam-bots.html

USA FTC Investigation Sparked Over Use of "Female Chat Bots" in Ashley Madison
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/usa-ftc-investigation-sparked-over-use.html

eHarmony: Engineers try to get to the heart of true love

https://news.usc.edu/106008/love-is-in-the-algorithm-created-by-usc-engineers/

eHarmony recruits two USA USC data scientists to break down the hidden factors that result in long-lasting relationships.
Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg of the USC Information Sciences Institute are applying principles of quantum mechanics to the matchmaking algorithms that run eHarmony, one of the country’s most successful online dating sites.http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eharmony-promising-light-in-usa-dark.html
“Someone who goes to an online dating service like eHarmony is saying to themselves, ‘I have to find the right person to spend my life with,”’ Ver Steeg said. “It’s really hard. There are billions of people in the world. How can I shorten the list?”


Shorten the list?
Very easy!
For online dating applications and personality based recommenders persons/daters are "distinguishable" and not "exchangeable".
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-on-similarity-between.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/paper-enhanced-user-modeling-based-on.html

Please see:
The 3rd interview to Affinitas GmbH. new CEO! Big war between eHarmony Inc. and Affinitas GmbH. soon! 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/the-3rd-interview-to-affinitas-gmbh-new.html

Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html 

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-4-biggest-eharmonys-copycats.html 
  
eHarmony 2016 International plans revealed by its COO
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/eharmony-2016-international-plans.html
  


eHarmony is a 16  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/eh-eharmony-plus-is-forbidden-new-in.html
Moreover eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia; also TeAmo in Russia is another copycat of eHarmony. eSynchrony in Singapore, MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.
------------

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

Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html
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.
 
The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
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!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

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.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

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"
 
LIFEPROJECT METHOD is 100 times (not 100%) more powerful than eHarmony's  matching algorithm!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.