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STARTUP PODCAST

from Gimlet – 4+ Seasons

Season 1 – Alex Blumberg fumbles through the process of setting up Gimlet Media in an uneven series of 14 episodes. There is a lot that of value here. Deserving of special note are the episode about dividing equity [ep.3], valuation [ep.6], and burnout [ep.12]. Other episodes are entertaining, but not especially insightful for people with more than a novice interest or…

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Dating Ring

One of my favorite Podcasts is StartUp which talks about what it’s like to get a business off the ground. The second season recently started and I was so happy when I heard the business was not only headed by 2 women in their 20s, but it’s also a dating company! The company is called Dating Ringand it’s already up and running. What makes it different is that unlike Tinder or OKCupid you are not…

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Jews Tend To Date Other Jews According To Matchmaking Website

Jews Tend To Date Other Jews According To Matchmaking Website

By Brigit Katz

Jewish moms of the world, rejoice!

A new study by Dating Ring, an online matchmaking service, has found that its Jewish members are 25% more likely to date other Jews than they are to date singles of different religious backgrounds. The study also found that Jewish singles are 25% more likely to match than two members of other religions, or two members of different religions.

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This Company Flew Single New Yorkers to San Francisco for a Love Connection

“There's a running joke that there are more single men in San Francisco and more single women in New York City," says Lauren Kay, a co-founder and CEO of matchmaking startup Dating Ring. "So we thought it would be fun if some of them met each other.”

The stunt—their business model doesn't actually fly out singles on the regular—attracted a ton of attention and investment. Kay spoke to OPEN Forum about the Dating Ring and what it's really like to be a woman entrepreneur raising funds.

What was it like to fundraise with Y Combinator and afterward?

It was really hard! Demo day with YC is insane—there are hundreds of investors on the floor. It felt like this weird speed dating event where you ask people for money. I was super uncomfortable.

After demo day, I was determined to land additional investment to grow Dating Ring, so I'd go on up to seven meetings per day with angel investors and VCs. Some of them were awesome. After 15 minutes, one investor offered us money because he believed in our vision right off the bat. But other investors would ask me out on dates or openly ask when men would be brought into the company. I had no idea the sexism in Silicon Valley was so bad.

What advice can you offer other female founders to get through it?

Look for investors who aren’t known to be sexist. Talk to other founders that you trust and only take meetings with VCs who have a track record of respecting women. Don’t put up with anything, and leave meetings if you're uncomfortable.

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I have a revelation about why the Cross-Country Love Crowdtilt met its fund-raising goal: For every tech guy struggling to find love in San Francisco, there is one struggling harder to find novel ways to spend his money. The funds necessary to fly 16 girls cross-country so they can sleep four to a room is nothing compared to the sums that disappear when hotly anticipated start-ups go bust. Here, money is weightless. Social connections, on the other hand, are commodified: Fist bumps are mandated, “friends” are declared, and Dating Ring members provide feedback after every date to help laser-focus the next. The company's algorithm may one day know your desires better, even, than you do. That technology has allowed us to so thoroughly interrogate, define, and perhaps redefine our feelings is simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting — much like spending a weekend with strangers in a new time zone.

I Got Shipped to California to Date Tech Guys - The Cut