See for a dating site "in a message of peace to know plenty of fish brief description", suddenly to the interest. One person 14 years of the site (2001-2015), design, development, maintenance has always been a man, and it is to make money through Google Adsence start in the near time, the last 575 million dollars sold to Match Group.
The acquisition of information:
Dating Product providers Match Group Tuesday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for $ 575 million cash acquisition of dating site PlentyOfFish, the transaction is expected to close early in the fourth quarter. Match Group is IAC / InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) a subsidiary, Bing plans to go public. IAC recent share price since the three months rose 15%. --2015
Check the Internet a lot of information, but also specifically to plenty of fish on registration, tried several times, but that is life and death error code several times will not work, give up, the site is very simple, nothing amazing, unimaginable can sell 575 million. According to information when on the network to be investigated, the sale of the site, "plenty of fish" of registered users is 90 million, 3.6 million are active users. Creator Markus Frind, I found Markus Frind who wrote the article, introduced his creation "plenty of fish" of course.
My short description leaves a lot out, but basically I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning. I picked out "enemies" and did everything I could to defeat them which ment being bigger then them. I refused to accept defeat of any kind, and I constantly forced myself to test new things. I never tried to perfect anything it didn't matter if things didn't work 100% as long as it was good enough I would move onto the next thing. In 2003 the dating market was growing 80% a year unlike the -10% in 2006 so growth was a LOT easier. When 2004 rolled around and word of mouth REALLY kicked in and as they say the rest is history.
I look back now at how ill prepared I was, I didn't know anything about SEO, Advertising, community and I didn't even know what Venture Capital was. Just goes to show you anyone can do anything.
to sum up:
- Not do the same thing, then the other dating sites are charging, but Plenty of fish for free.
- He is a technician.
- Listen to the voice from the user, continuous improvement. This, from his article also see that "At the start of March I had ~ 40 members my site was running off my home machine, people where complaining I did not allow image uploading so by mid march I had added image uploading. You can see how absolutely horrible the site looked here ".
- adhere to.
- There is no need to prepare adequately before opening his own business. As he said: "I look back now at how ill prepared I was, I did not know anything about SEO, Advertising, community and I did not even know what Venture Capital was Just goes to show you anyone can do anything. .. "
"Knows nothing, doubts nothing," and near "human nature" by the rich. Product design must meet the "human nature." Dr. Wu described Facebook's very interesting passage in his "top of the wave" in:
Facebook According to the University and the University of the users into groups, a person can get real information on their own students, university students can not obtain other information directly. Since each user's Email is true, and almost all the early data (including age,
sex, address and telephone number) are true, it is easy to provide college students love. Many undergraduate students told me that the reason for their "early" Facebook is the real need of ai (their words were Young people need sex). This is like Facebook co-founder girlfriend is so found of the same.
plenty of fish than facebook created even earlier, from its name can feel it in mind. A man well-built products can create great wealth, which is the early Internet age, many people will think that we enter the mobile Internet today, this will no longer happen. But history tells us again and again, every age will have "Lone Ranger" to create a "miracle", I believe the next 10 years, too!
Go all out to create value it!