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Motivation re:dating site - the very simple (and quite ugly) dating site, Plenty of Fish, earns $10M a year.

• alaskamiller 18y ago
  The last confirmation was $5 million a year in July of 2007.
  • antidaily 18y ago
    My source: http://myventurepad.com/Startups/17787 http://myventurepad.com/Startups/17787
• aston 18y ago
  If anything, that's demotivation, at least for real hackers. Plenty of Fish is popular because of marketing/SEO techniques and throwing successively larger iron at traffic, not because Markus Frind was a technical genius with a clever idea. Very different path to profitability than most of us want to take, I think.
  • omouse 18y ago
    I'm torn...It's nice to have that much money because then you can take it and create other better things. But you first have to build something sleazy :-/
  • run4yourlives 18y ago
    Speak for yourself. If you want to be a technical genius get a grant and grow a beard. I want to use the skills I have to support my family and enjoy life at the same time.