When they were privately (and before being sold to Penthouse) they were still very profitable and paid generous bonuses to employees (although they had a fairly high churn rate due to the nature of their business). AFF, by the way, is a big Perl shop.

I believe most of their income comes from pornographic portions that they offer / affiliate programs (but I’d imagine the “adult personals” portion is what draws its audience).

Once in the early day’s, my friend’s manager (the company’s founder) had been asked by a former classmate if he could host a site for his start-up in exchange for stock options. The manager refused. That classmate’s name was. Jerry Yang.

2) AFF’s founders could the sites have already been hosting sites before founding AFF (indeed, it would logically follow that he’d have experience running a site before launching a successful company).

Conru is registered wih Verisign and on 03-NOV-94 (Andrew Conru is the founder of AFF and you can see the FFN address and name when doing ‘whois conru’). Yahoo is registered 18-JAN-1995 (do “whois ‘=yahoo'” to check). Seems like it’s at least plausible (Stanford is a small place).

Over there, you will see that the same company runs a number of age/gender/ethnicity specific networks (GayFF, AsianFF) and even a Christian dating site called “BigChurch” Also, the nerve personals section is run by fastcupid, which is also owned by FFN

I think that perhaps a large part of the “ew” factor in this (and many other) threads come from the idea that enough money to warrant an IPO can come from such ‘seedy’ business as facilitating one-night stands, but in my mind it is quite questionable whether the vast majority of the income comes from the one-night-stand part of their business.

In fact, I am willing to bet that it is not. It seems plausible to me that the number of people who simply are not meeting a partner that meets their criteria is on par with the number of people who require one night stands.

So they’re only going to take money from new “investors” to pay off the old? Sounds like another Ponzi scheme to me.

i am still of the opinion that a majority of the funds in the hedge markets had cash conserved during the down turn. if this goes well, then it will show that there is money out there.

on another note, in down times, entertainment seems to do better and this might be the only time that an adult website could grab the attention of investors.

I love exactly how this mature hookup website positively gives you chances to meet and link group for some everyday dates

In addition found out as possible submit digital gift ideas with other AFF people. However, this while the capacity to start a conversation bond using them will require that you upgrade to a Gold account.

And hough it’s a little complicated as to why, you’ve got the solution of sending more users ideas. Do keep in mind these aren’t always pro brands you’re getting together with by and large.

Then again, customers are thanks for visiting carry on live webcams on AFF, and so I kinda comprehend the importance of this specific feature.

Apart from that alerts, I also had an unread information. We after found out that it’s from AFF’s algorithm, which supplies possible suits.

Clicking on one of these simple recommended users will allow you to read their own profile. You’re planning get a hold of stuff like their particular choices and other personal data that they’ve distributed to the site to ensure different users can easily see just what they’re getting.