Matchmaking seems to create matches with norms and outliers within a range of tiers.
Operating as a middleman, investment banks earn lucrative profits by matchmaking investors with investment opportunities.
Genworth has offered the assessment and matchmaking service to its long-term-care policyholders for four years.
On one stage, a glamorous woman in a fuchsia minidress is hosting a public matchmaking session.
One might assume that the Internet and the proliferation of online dating would hurt the matchmaking business.
On the couch were six female models all using Tinder, the matchmaking iOS app they released in August.
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Facilitating those companies are matchmaking services such as Loosecubes.com and LiquidSpace.com, which connect desk-seeking employees with unused space.
Apparently, they have no problem trying to do matchmaking into the great beyond.
Book reviewers are an essential part of the publishing ecosystem, acting as a matchmaking service between author and reader.
With quick success in the dating market, Tinder is beginning to think about applying their intuitive matchmaking process to other verticals.
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Australian entrepreneur Pemo Theodore spent five years in London trying to drum up venture capital funding for her digital matchmaking start-up.
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The more choices available (ie the more popular a matchmaking website), we are told, the better for those making the choice.
These are primarily matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks.
Clients are plied with everything from free limousine rental (with chauffeur) to matchmaking for their children, health care and even plastic surgery.
"We want to be more refined in the matchmaking, " Mr. Frankel says.
It also could spawn another business, matchmaking between impoverished senior citizens in nursing homes and wealthy singles looking to shelter their estates from taxes.
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Now, though, thanks to a merging of the social and digital spaces, matchmaking sites are flourishing based on making the search for love more predictable.
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But it felt like the same game as the one that came out two years previously, right down the menus and matchmaking screens being identical.
He clearly had drive and a head for business, but matchmaking?
Online matchmaking is premised on the notion of making rational choices.
The corporate matchmaking led to brokering commercial mortgages back in Boston.
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The matchmaking system surrounds the player with friends that are playing the game already, as well as other strangers that have been elected as good fits.
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One start-up, Ignighter, set up by three 20-something New Yorkers, is hoping to persuade India that the future of online matchmaking is in group dating.
Instead they are pigeonholed into less senior clerical jobs, which bosses used to regard as little more than matchmaking services to provide overworked husbands with loyal wives.
But on the New York matchmaking scene, there is no free lunch for ladies, even if you're a young, Harvard-educated lingerie model who moonlights as a brain surgeon.
They are building world-class businesses such as Gilt Groupe and Catchafire, an innovative for-profit company that excels in corporate and non-profit volunteer matchmaking founded by Rachael Chong.
In addition the Accra-based company will ask for equity in any business that manages to raise capital with its help, and also plans to charge an additional matchmaking fee.
While matchmaking long the bread-and-butter business of the offline dating world can be a form of date coaching, the new breed of coach eschews the business of setting up their clients.
Team names and names for proposed solutions that borrowed elements of online dating and matchmaking services said it all: Kar Match, eCarmony, Car Cupid and Car Match by Team Love-o-Matic.
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