Sentences with phrase «frind started»
Markus Frind started this free dating stamp site which become very popular, many observed suit.
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Popular dating website Plenty of Fish was started without any VC funding — founder Markus Frind bootstrapped his way to a successful acquisition — $ 575 million in cash.
With all the free time on his hands, why doesn't Frind just start a second company?
Frind's account of his own exploits, published on his blog in 2006 under the title «How I Started a Dating Empire,» says a lot about his worldview: «I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning.
«~ 80 % of people are now using a mobile app or mobile device for meeting people or arranging dates and last year, the start of last year, everyone was doing it on a desktop or on a computer so it's totally changed in the span of 12 months,» Frind said.
People start to re-evaluate their lives and they all set their New Year's resolutions to find someone,» said Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish.com.
Markus Frind went it alone, from start to very profitable end, selling his dating site POF for a $ 575M in 2015.
«Today about 70 % of POF use is via a mobile phone,» Frind explained, «and unfortunately about 2 % of men started to use POF as more of a hookup site mostly due the casual nature of cell phone use.»
For Plenty of Fish and Markus Frind, this is an incredible buyout for a company that he started and bootstrapped himself over 10 years ago.
PlentyOfFish started as a way for Markus Frind to teach himself ASP, but quickly marched itself up to become a very large dating site, with nearly 600,000 unique monthly U.S. visitors (Comscore) and claims of 500 million monthly page views (Comscore says only 118 million, in the U.S.).