Press Coverage

New Online Dating Sites Bring Your Friends Along For The Ride (Posted: 05/23/2012).

For years, online dating sites have promised that their almighty algorithms could turn strangers into soulmates. But recent research suggests that their love-engineering is about as foolproof as flirting with random people at a bar, and a new breed of dating sites are using social networks, rather than science, to help singles find romance.

“It just takes the stigma attached to online dating — ‘Is this person really who they say they are?’ — and melts it away when you realize you know someone in common,” said Brian Bowman, CEO of theComplete.Me. “It’s like you met them through a friend.”

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INTERNET DATING & DATING INDUSTRY CONFERENCE New York, NY–Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that Brian Bowman will provide the keynote address at the 9th annual iDate West Coast Mobile Dating Conference. The event takes place on June 20-22, 2012 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.

Bowman is the CEO/Founder of theComplete.me (www.thecomplete.me), the Internet’s first social dating network. He is the former VP of Product Match.com, VP of Community Yahoo!, and CMO Reply.com. Bowman is a recognized authority on social networking, online dating and acquisition marketing.

Bowman’s ability to foresee the directional shifts of the dating industry, coupled with his deep understanding of product and community, uniquely qualifies him to keynote the event. In it, he will describe how the dating industry is broadening into social discovery, moving from PC to mobile, sharing implications to business models, user experience and acquisition marketing strategies.

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theComplete.me Launches Social Dating Site, Matches With $1.22M From Industry Leaders

ERIC ELDON

Monday, April 16th, 2012

If Facebook itself isn’t a covert dating site, then at least its social graph could be — a big group of startups have been going for this honeypot of user data and connections ever since the company launched its platform back in 2007. Few have really taken off, and incumbent dating sites like the not-so-social Match.com have continued to hold mindshare with date-seekers.

This is where theComplete.me sees the opportunity. The company quietly launched a Facebook app in March that pulls in and analyzes data from Facebook and other social sites to figure out who you might be a good fit with — and goes way beyond most rivals in its effort to undermine the incumbents.

Led by Brian Bowman, the former vice president of product at Match.com, it’s also announcing a large $1.22 million seed round from Intel Capital, psuedo-rival dating site PlentyofFish (a strategic investor in this case), the CrunchFund, and a list of prominent angels….

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AllYouCanLove (March 14, 2012)

http://allyoucanlove.com/2012/03/thecomplete-me-pinterest-of-dating/

TheComplete.me operates similar to a social network so users can message each other without paying for it. Overall, this is a great concept and is going to be one of the leading social dating concepts for 2012 and moving into 2013. The saying, wherever there are women, men will follow.

PRWeb (March 13, 2012)

theComplete.me Social Dating Network Launches Beta Site, Introduces “Interest Matching” Singles Connect Via Interests and Friends, Curated from Their Social Networks

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012social/03dating/prweb9264396.htm

AllDatingWebsites.com (Mar 11, 2012)

Site Review http://www.alldatingwebsites.com/reviews/thecomplete.me/