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laurenkay

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About laurenkay

Founder of The Dating Ring (www.thedatingring.com) and SmartSitting (www.smartsitting.com). Brown '11 graduate. Cat lover, people connector.

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    All while having a newborn and being a fantastic dad :)

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    Thanks for unkilling, but it's pretty ironic that a piece about Silicon Valley being a boys' club was flag-killed. With HN's prominence in SV, I really wish this were a progressive…

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    Great tip! And that's awesome that you took a class. Often, people think that flirting and dating are things you can't learn, but it's the opposite. Learning to be a great dater ta…

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    We added that to staging based on a previous comment, and the change will be live by tomorrow. And getting signups in other cities doesn't help our stats or conversion rates (it ac…

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    Nothing about that campaign itself was sexist. But mix women and dating, and you get a ton of outcry from the media that the women are prostitutes. As a feminist company, that wasn…

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    We have 5 full-time matchmakers with varied backgrounds, mostly in psychology, theater, and working at other matchmaking agencies. We often get questioned more on what makes our ma…

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    @genericuser A big value add to what we do is that we will offer advice to people who keep getting rejected. If it's that their expectations are too high, we have it on our list to…

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    Ah, yes, we have been doing this since we launched. The $20/month gets you access to free, exclusive Dating Ring parties (lotsss of people find dates through those) as well as that…

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    Of course. HN has been super helpful today and I'll definitely be working on providing a better explanation - and making other changes people have suggested as well.