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MAY 16, 2013

It''s not infrequently that we''re pitched by a startup saying they are the ''eHarmony for X'', referring to the Santa Monica-based online dating and relationship site''s reputation. However, is the next ''eHarmony for Jobs'' actually eHarmony itself? eharmony jobs dating online careers' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2013

It looks like Santa Monica-based eHarmony might be the place to go. eHarmony said that it ranks number one in terms of the number of marriage created by an online dating site, based on a scientific study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Santa Monica-based eHarmony.com , the online matchmaking site, said Wednesday that it has added William T. eHarmony said that Weyerhauser joins Dr. He also has served at EDEN Bioscience, Potlach Corporation, and Comerco. eharmony online matchmaking dating executive board weyerhauser' Weyerhauser to its board of directors.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony is planning a big advertising push, as the firm said it has revamped its management team under founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren. The move comes as eHarmony says it has been working to refresh and revamp its experience and drive users to return to the service. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony rolled out its own Rose Bowl float yesterday, saying that it is the "first dot com" to have a float in the Rose Parade. eHarmony''s float, "Everlasting Love", featured Natalie Cole singing her song "This will be", as well as couples who met via eHarmony. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2009

Pasadena-based eHarmony has launched a gay and lesbian web site, Compatible Partners , which the firm says will help gay and lesbian singles to find long-term relationships. eHarmony said that pricing for Compatible Partners will be the same as eHarmony.com. Tags: eharmony compatible partners lesbian dating. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony is continuing its big marketing push, saying this morning that it will be featuring a float for the 2014 Rose Parade. eHarmony--which is in the midst of a big marketing and advertising push--said that its float will feature musician Natalie Cole. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony said Tuesday that it now has more than 600,000 marriages to its credit, with approximately one in seven people in America having subscribed to the service at one point or another. eHarmony also said it will be releasing its job matching service, Elevated Careers, in Q4.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Santa Monica-based Comparably , the startup which helps employees and employers track compensation and company culture data, has snagged a high profile hire this morning, hiring on eHarmony veteran Armen Avedissian as its new Chief Marketing Officer.

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JULY 14, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony is moving its headquarters from Pasadena to Santa Monica, according to reports from local community papers. eHarmony is reported to be moving to a space in the Yahoo! eHarmony has been in its current Pasadena location on Walnut street for the last five years. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A security researcher is reporting that Pasadena-based matchmaking site Santa Monica-based eHarmony is alerting users to change their passwords, after a reported breach of customer information. The breach follows a rash of similar security issues from other web-based service providers in the last few months.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Los Angeles-based matchmaking site eHarmony is approaching a redemption deadline from its last venture funding round, according to a report today from Reuters. It's unlikely that the venture firms would do so, however, given the current valuation of eHarmony, which has been rumored in recent months to be seeking an IPO.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Santa Monica-based matchmaking site eHarmony is looking to the overseas market to grow its service, saying today that it is launching a "globalization initiative" this year to add one new country per quarter to its service. eHarmony says it will create region-specific versions of its service, which will be customized for each country.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based online dating and relationship site eHarmony has been hit by the same hacker which hit LinkedIn, it appears, after security experts discovered that the same hacker posting LinkedIn account data has also been posting passwords from eHarmony. LinkedIn's breach was estimated to have affected 6.5 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2015

Santa Monica-based eHarmony the online matchmaking site, said Tuesday that it has completed the second phase of a major, IT refresh at the company. eHarmony said that its service is now built on top of Hadoop 2.0, eHarmony ha completed the first stage of the big refresh in Q4 of 2014. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2013

Greg Waldorf , who was the founding investor in Los Angeles-based eHarmony , and was previously its CEO, is the lead investment in an online education firm''s Series A. Grovo''s online video training site includes more than 3,500 video lessons on Internet tools and cloud services. Series A funding for the company this morning.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHarmony , the online dating and matchmaking site, announced this morning that it has named Jeremy Verba as its new Chief Executive Officer. Verba had previously served as President and CEO of teen community site Piczo, as well as AOL, E! Online, and CNET. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. According to eHarmony, it is in an agreement to settle Carlson, et. eHarmony, Inc., which was filed in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A new study, released today by the Pew Research Center , says that more American adults are using online dating sites or mobile apps than ever before. The study said 15% of adults have used online dating sites or apps; with 9% having used dating apps. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. Among other gaining sites were ProFlowers.com, which had a surge of 412 percent in uniques, to 5.3

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Pasadena-based myShape , an online e-commerce site focused on matching women to clothing, said today that the firm has been selected by dating site eHarmony to be the exclusive fashion e-tailer for a new eHarmony Advice Date Planner. Tags: fashion ecommerce dating myshape clothing eharmony. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony said today that it has inked a partnership with AOL, on AOL Personals, an online dating service. According to eHarmony, it will bring its scientific matchmaking to AOL Personals, through promotion on AOL's sites, a dedicated "eHarmony Boutique", and dating advice.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Pasadena-based online dating provider eHarmony said Wednesday afternoon that it will launch a same-sex matching service, called Compatible Partners, as a result of a lawsuit filed against the firm by the state of New Jersey. eHarmony had faced scrutiny and criticism for refusing to accept gay members to its computerized matching site.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com , a new startup led by Scott Saunders, said Tuesday that it has officially launched its free, social finance site. Payoff.com's web site centers around sharing dreams and saving goals with others, and earning special badges for reaching steps along the way to those goals. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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JULY 15, 2023

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Costa Mesa-based Payoff.com , which operates a peer-to-peer, lending site led by Scott Saunders--and whose Chief Scientist is Galen Buckwalter, who was the Chief Scientific Officer at eHarmony--has raised $12M in a funding effort. The funding was led by Mohamed El-Erian, the finance guru who was at Pacific Investment Management Co.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Everyone knows that Southern California is already home to quite a few online dating sites, like eHarmony , but how about startups? The site helps you get past all the online posturing, improves your odds of connecting with multiple people, and also gets you to a great restaurant, at the same time. Let's Date. Three Day Rule.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

A new, online coupon software "bookmarklet" called Koupon Kitty --backed by Juvo Capital, the investment firm of Talmadge O'Neill and Harry Tsao--said it launched Wednesday, to help consumers find the best coupon codes for various e-commerce sites.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Former Vice President of Technology at eHarmony and Vice President of Engineering at the Rubicon Project. In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. There are two things I learned at eHarmony.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the developer of location-aware website applications backed by Morado Venture Partners, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and angel Robert Bingham, said today that it has released its new public Application Programming Interface (API). READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse , the behavioral targeting firm backed by Ron Conway and Geocities' founder David Bohnett, said Tuesday that Cooking.com has been using the firm's technology to ramp sales of its online site. SteelHouse is headed by Mark Douglas, the former VP of Technology at eHarmony and VP of Engineering at Rubicon Project.

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JUNE 29, 2010

The site allows users to post green investment and business deals, find investors, and connect with others in the clean technology sector. The firm also recently hired Stan Holt, most recently a VP at eHarmony, as its President and COO. The firm is backed by Blue Marble Ventures, and is being run by Blue Marbles' Patrick McKenna.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Let’s take a particular example: eHarmony of jobs.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

We'll discuss trends and tips in online dating (what should your profile pic be, what description, social media for dating), how sites like eHarmony and dating authors use social media to promote, how romantic comedies market and tie into V-day, and more.

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