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...behind them, they set forth to the corner of Massachusetts and Meacham Aves to consummate their cyberspace vision. That vision was known as Pimpin’ Cupid. It was a simple yet profound concept: an online dating service that pairs up potential soul mates via e-mail. Sam A. Yagan ’99 muses “It was a fun idea, we were all friends, and we thought ‘why not?’ Little did this motley crew realize that the industrious Cupid would be pimpin’ over a quarter of a million people...
...surprisingly, theSpark.com was started by a group of Harvard grads, (Christoper R. Coyne '99, Maxwell N. Krohn '99, Eli W. Boltin '99 and Sam A. Yagan '99), whose founding of the company in the spring of their senior year constituted their own brand of procrastination. Their dabbling, however, turned out to be quite lucrative--in February of 2000, iTurf Incorporated purchased the website for several million dollars. Today, the site averages about 3 million hits per day and its founders are earning "more than we spend," according to Yagan...
...Yagan, the tremendous amount of work doesn't seem painful...
...gotten marriage proposals," Yagan says...
Clearly, someone cares. Although the rest of Yagan's office might not care what he is wearing, he adds that visitors pay close attention to the Web cams offered on the site...