Darren Richards

Profile:
Webpreneur Darren Richards

The Times - 6 March 2009

Founder of Dating Direct talks about being single, flying helicopters and how he became a gold card holder... on Monarch...

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Dating tycoon finds true love:
Darren Richards

Express - 29 March 2009

Darren Richards sold his online dating agency two years ago for £30million. Still single and one of the UK’s most eligible men, his loves are fast cars, buying property and a new online business...

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Tenerife attracts the champagne set; but has bargain property prices

The Sunday Times - 24 February 2008

When Darren Richards sold DirectDirect.com, the online dating service he founded, for almost £30m last year, it wasn't to the obvious millionaires' playgrounds that he headed with his spoils...

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DatingDirect sold for £27m to
pan-European rival Meetic

Brand Republic - 9 January 2007

DatingDirect.com, which grew to be one of the UK's lasting successes of the dotcom boom, is to be sold to Meetic, the pan-European dating website, in a deal worth £27.3m....

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French firm seduces
DatingDirect

The Register - 9 January 2007

DatingDirect, the Brummie-based dating service, has been sold to French dating company Meetic for £27.3m...

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It's a date - for £27.3m

BusinessLive - 10 January 2007

A Birmingham dot.com company that cost £250 to set up has been sold - for £27.3 million. DatingDirect.com, the UK's leading online dating agency, has been acquired by French company Meetic, the biggest European company in the field...

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Darren advises on making a date
with internet success

Birmingham Post - 26 July 2006

Web-based innovations can quickly fail if their creators are not clued up on budgeting and marketing, the founder of the UK's biggest online dating agency has warned...

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Love and cash in the air for
web dating sites

The Times - 11 February 2006

DATINGDIRECT, the UK's biggest online dating company, is expecting to see its profits more than triple this year as more people seek love online...

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How I made it: Darren Richards - Founder of DatingDirect.com

The Sunday Times - 29 June 2003

Sceptics seeking proof that internet dating really works need look no further than Darren Richards, the creator of Britain's largest dating service, DatingDirect.com...

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