Spark Networks Together With The Foreign Failure Of Sex-Starved Jewish Estimator Scientific Discipline Undergrads...

Whitney Tilson suggested Spark Networks - a dating companionship - equally a long at a value investor forum recently. For the life of me I could non mistake it. (Here are some details on Whitney's presentation...)

Spark owns 1 of the really neat franchises inward online dating - JDate.com. JDate - a Jewish Singles dating network is utterly entrenched inward its community - mums purchase their daughters subscriptions - at to the lowest degree hence the man child volition go Jewish. I know several users - people who would non see using some other site. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 subscription to JDate is a rite-of-passage almost equally of import equally a bar or bat mitzvah.

JDate has been or hence for a long fourth dimension - in addition to all the same goes strong.

I suggested the stock to a friend (who likely wishes to stay anonymous) in addition to hither is what he said:

I cannot mean value of a sector to a greater extent than probable to go disrupted inward whatsoever industry. 

The affair almost dating is that the lifespan of a dating somebody is roughly 18-25 years one-time (or at to the lowest degree that volition e'er go the median hence that demographic volition ready social norms, fifty-fifty for xl twelvemonth one-time divorcees). So y'all are dealing amongst people who alive in addition to breath technology scientific discipline in addition to 'live' for solely vii years. 'Science advances 1 funeral at a time' same amongst tech precisely hither everyone dies young. So the base of operations charge per unit of measurement of excogitation in addition to cultural development is super high. There is a huge backlash against static dating pages equally they are inaccurate (i.e., everyone loves travel, hiking no 1 says they dear dungeons in addition to dragons) ; every immature adult woman finds the 1 amazing photograph of themselves.  

Secondarily, y'all are at the beating midpoint of the mobile revolution. Dating requires physical proximity hence at that spot are a moving ridge of companies trying to produce materials similar meetups of 4-6 people for a quaff in addition to hence they tin assess each others dating potential.e.g., www.grouper.com (one could produce half-dozen Jewish people coming together upwards too). 

Thirdly - the over representation of Jewish entrepreneurs is insane- Ballmer. Zuckerberg, Page in addition to Brin etc. Zuckerberg solely invented FB to instruct a date! You are literally betting against every gender activity starved Jewish figurer scientific discipline undergrad. Bad bet.

My friend is almost sure correct - at the terminate a bet on Spark Networks is a bet against every gender activity starved Jewish figurer scientific discipline undergrad (SSJCSU) in addition to that is probable a really bad bet. Flatly stupid even.

But hence far legions of SSJCSUs convey non succeeded inward knocking JDate off. Sure they invented Facebook - precisely the master copy JDate franchise is all the same at that spot - robust through all of this. I am sure that some SSJCSUs convey tried in addition to indeed are all the same trying.

So why does JDate all the same exist? Why this foreign failure?



John