關於 problems of online dating ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

恭喜非誠勿擾團隊的Kenneth & Andy 開創了新的線上事業! 加油加油!!

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創業快問快答
Q：創業，教會了你哪些事？簡單分享創業至今以來的心得感想？

You have to have an usual passion about your business.
Time is never enough.

Q：希望提供這個社會什麼價值？希望解決甚麼樣的問題？

StepUp solves the problems created by modern dating apps. Most of the popular dating apps operate on the swipe-match-message model, which encourages impersonal user interactions, such as fake profiles, dead end conversations, and undesirable contents.

We aim to create a video platform that is enjoyable, efficient and safe for all of our users, especially women. We have a strict flagging and blocking system, which we monitor regularly. We are adding facial recognition and screenshot/video record prevention to ensure maximum safety for our female users.

Q：長遠來看，公司想成為一家何種類型的公司？下一步的目標是什麼？你們如何完成？

We want to become a company that provides full-cycle dating services from online speed dates, offline in person speed dates to dating and relationship coaching.

Our short term goal is to have 2000 DAUs in one year on the StepUp app. To achieve this, we are actively seeking funding and accelerators to help grow our team and do user acquisition.

If you ask me what is greatest gift. I'd say it is not my body... 100% not.
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Here's something you didn't know about me.
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I was skinny. I was weak, and I easily fall sick. I wasn't that athletic guy who did well in sports (my school mates knew how sux I was)... Apart from fitness, I was that low self-esteem kid who is not strong enough to hold eye contact with anyone for more than 3 secs. I'm negative af.
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Thankfully, the universe is fair. Why? Because I have this one special gift. This one power in within me that is more powerful than any steroids in this world, and that is "I can't accept being weak when I know I can be strong". Some people called it "Kiasu"... Whatever. I don't want to live according to my fate; I want to live up to my destiny.
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I took all kinds of courses, both live and online (I still remember 15 years back I secretly took up a dating course just to learn about a man's self-esteem, *ahem* and how to pick up girls too... I didn't tell anyone including my family).
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I joined the gym a few years later... Every night I'll do my research in training and nutrition, but you know online kinds of stuff is not 100% legit, so I got a lot of wrong infos too.
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Physically, I dislike my narrow shoulder, broad waistline, and my infamous structure of my ab muscles... and so I train and diet really hard! As motivating as it sounds...The real results? Too much of Hardness = More problems. Problems like injuries and health issues (from dieting too much). Well, this moment is the fun part for all motherfuck!ng naysayers... While they are working out their fingers behind the glass, I am learning stuff from my failures, as in how to prevent injuries and what it takes to speed up my recovery... These painful lessons are genuinely my best teachers.
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Seems like the more weakness I discover, the better I will get. That's my strength, maybe.
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So please don't get upset when you feel like you are a loser. Without losing there's no such thing as winning... Only if you lift that motherf*ck!ng resistance up or else it will crush you like a pancake.
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Start weak. Be strong. Stay Strong! 💪

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[Undressing the Big Verticals: Finding Disruption Strategies in Greater Southeast Asia]

Huge businesses online and offline wear a facade of dominance. In a world where software and cloud storage is cheap compared to even five years ago, these facades are just facades.

Any smart founder who can understand a niche market and its customers, can disrupt these businesses by offering a much better experience to a global set of users, simply by showing that the emperors wear no clothes.

Take a look at the first photo. Each of the eight startup companies in the first image were taken out of the listings page (literally) of online classifieds business Craigslist, depicted in the second picture. This platform's offerings became so big and varied that it suffered from entropy.

The markets tapped into by these startups are bigger than what Craigslist alone could utilize. Meaning that the gold threads Craigslist was wearing were really just a myth. As submarkets became exploitable, startup founders started picking them off.

These two images offer great insights for founders in Greater Southeast Asia, where businesses are sometimes conservatively managed, and where conglomerates and gigantic industry players operate in large local markets.

This is because the new companies do one niche thing very well dating; food; home-sharing, etc. In a mobile-use heavy market, people love these apps. The focused offerings and their ease of use make them fun to use, and they solve problems quickly and efficiently.

Why does this happen? What should founders in GSEA do with this information?

1. There are two reasons why this happens. First, big platforms trying to do everything for everyone will find it hard to manage all of the areas of the business. It's a result of organizational entropy. Consumers in a diverse global software environment will be easily distracted by new choices that big organizations cannot exploit in a fast way.

It also happens because founders using cheaper and more agile software tools can find niche areas in big platforms that they can exploit much more quickly, and offer to consumers using a better user experience. They understand the needs of the niche customer better. They find ways to make it interesting and engaging.

After all, swiping left and right on Tinder is actually really fun and an engaging use of time. Right?

2. Founders in GSEA are working in a region where it should be relatively easy to find big industry players in the market and find ways of disrupting their existing dominance.

In a region that is still relatively conservative in business compared to the rest of the world, and where large conglomerate players usually dominate the local markets, software disruption is primed and ready.

If you would like to test out exploits and software platform ideas in niche areas dominated by big industry players in a gigantic market, check out our accelerator class #20.

We are taking applications until December 16. Join here: http://bit.ly/AWdisrupt

Image source: Platforms vs Verticals and the Next Great Unbundling by a16z -- https://a16z.com/2019/09/11/platforms-verticals-unbundling/

Doug Crets
Media and Communications, AppWorks Accelerator

ALRIGHT
love, relationships, dating, everything else that comes with it... ya'll asked I answered

Timestamps:
0:00
1:03 Would you rather emotional or physical cheating?
3:04 Will you confess to your crush (same gender) if you're not sure of her s*xuality?
4:37 How you met your current partner
4:55 Worst reason for breakup
5:26 In what ways do you think you and Mavis are compatible?
5:31 Talking about s*x
11:21 Is s*x more enjoyable with a guy or a girl?
12:00 When was your first time having s*x? Was it painful?
13:47 How should I react if my ex has told others about our s*xual history without my permission?
14:55 How do you approach girls / discreetly find other queer companions?
16:29 How to deal with body (size) insecurity during s*x?
18:23 How has your perception of love changed? As compared to when you were younger
20:22 Being bi, when it comes to s*x, do you have a preference between males and females?
22:23 What is your love language?
23:37 S*x before marriage? Have you gotten intimate with Mavis yet?
25:00 Have you faced any discrimination in public with your gf?
25:26 Have you ever had problems pleasurin yourself/partners?
26:23 Have you s*xted?
26:39 Most bizarre/wildest s*xual experience
26:45 How can one tell if they're pan if they haven't felt attraction to all genders yet?
27:51 What will you do if you and Mavis want s*x?
28:04 Girl fell in love with a guy who had a gf, still with gf 5 years later, should she confront gf
32:38 I always think about my ex whenever I think about s*x & intimacy and that makes it harder to get over them. Any advice?
34:11 With all the fights you had with your SO, does s*x help?
34:38 What are your views on hair removal on vjj? Is it really necessary TT__TT
37:28 If you have the ability to switch Mavis into a born male, would you do it?
38:50 How do females have s*x with their partner?
39:35 How did you and Mavis decide to stop being friends and get the romance in da air instead?
39:48 What happened in your previous relationship?
40:46 Who is the clinger one in your relationship? And how do each of you deal with it?
43:01 Hypothetically, if your partner was generally less capable than you in many aspects, would you feel the need to shelter them?
46:58 Tips on online dating, casual s*x, getting back into the dating game and how to ~feel ready~

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