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So The "Bean-llionnaires" Who Won 30 Million Beans Are…

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In honor of Mark Cuban’s $30 million dollar offer on Shark Tank, we announced a 30 million beans giveaway last week! We said we would choose one lucky winner among new members who sign up between January 9th and January 18th. We also said we would give 30 million Coffee Beans to whoever invited the winning member to Coffee Meets Bagel. So the lucky winners are: Caitlin and her friend Erin, who invited her!
In case you missed our co-founders Dawoon, Arum and Soo going head to head with the Sharks with so much confidence, check out our segment below:

 

If you liked this post, check out Dawoon’s article “Ladies, It’s Now Your Turn To Pay On The First Date,”  recently published by The Huffington Post!

About Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB): CMB  is a free dating service that helps members make meaningful connections. It’s designed for busy singles who want to find something real with little or no effort.

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If My City Was Single: Infographic on Singles in Chicago, LA, DC

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We’re all a product of our environments and with their fast-paced and immersive lifestyle that goes double for cities.

Which got us thinking: what exactly does the average single look like in your city?

We analyzed CMB member data in our newest cities – Chicago, LA and DC – to bring you the answers. Check out the highlights below:

CHICAGO: It’s a Hell of a Town.

In the Windy City the average single man is tall, white and godless with a penchant for finance while the average single lady is totally in touch with her spiritual side while her other side earns reams of cash in marketing. Can someone say “power couple”?

LA: Hello Holy-Wood!

In LA a whopping 41% of men and women identify as either Christian or Catholic, (I guess that’s why they call it the City of Angels). LA men tend to be in the entertainment business while women once again prefer marketing. Strangely, in a city famous for its tacos, 43% of male singles are white while at 38% the highest percentage of LA women tend to be Asian!

DC: Degree City?

With 43% of singles possessing an advanced degree, DC is easily the most educated city out of the three.  Nearly 50% of single women have their masters! (Take THAT 20th century!) So what do these smarty-pants do with their shiny degrees? Well, 13% of women are still in the process of getting them (students) while 14% of men use their education to become management consultants

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Coffee Meets SideCar in LA

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All you Bagels in Los Angeles, Listen Up!
We teamed up with Sidecar to get you Bagels rolling for your dates!
Sidecar is a new ridesharing app that is one of a kind! Sidecar allows people in LA to find drivers in the city willing to give them a ride!
If you find a bagel between March 20th to March 29th, we will give you $25 dollars worth of sidecar credit! So don’t you worry about gas or even having a car, because Sidecar will bring you and your bagel around town!

The Evolution of Coffee Meets Bagel Headquarters

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Thanks to all the lovely bagels out there, our company is moving on up! Since the launch in April last year, we have found ourselves in many different offices in order to accomodate our growing size. And today for the fourth time, we have moved offices!
As a keepsake, let’s take a look at our past working spaces…
1. This was where it all began, in an open lab!
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2. Then we moved to an office fit for three.
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3. As things started to kick-off, we moved to an office space fit for five! Hey look it’s Soo and Adam!
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And now, for the moment we’ve all been waiting for…
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Ain’t it pretty? The new office allows for a lot of space and is big enough to fit our 8-person Coffee Meets Bagel team! And we finally have windows. Yay for Coffee Meets Bagel!
Thank you all for the support!

Top 6 Ways To Text Your Bagel

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Valentine’s Day Bonus! Ever have a hard time coming up with a good first text? You’re not the only one! Try emulating these smooth-talking Bagels. Six creative first texts that you wish you thought of first.
 
Most Honest
Bagel A: “Whats up! I don’t care you passed I just want one convo. I’m actually in Israel right now, you ever been??”
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Most Creative
Bagel J: “Like Oreo for milk, will you be bagel for my coffee?”
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Most Mistaken
Bagel D: “I missed a comma and for a second thought you liked to eat puppies. “Wow such tactless honestly!” Great smile!”
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Most Suggestive
Bagel S: “Hey! I like red wine and getting sweaty too! Mostly through Bikram Yoga…”
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Most Poetic
Bagel R: “Hey! I’m Ray. My birthday is in May and I like to play. Want to grab a drink some day? I hope you don’t say nay.”
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Most Bold
Bagel J: “This might be a weird question, but did I make out with you at a penthouse party last New Year’s?”
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Best Valentine's Day Date Ideas

Best Valentine's Day Date Ideas, Outfits and More!

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Valentine’s Day survey results are in! Find out what other Coffee Meets Bagel members are doing on Valentine’s Day and what you should wear on Valentine’s Day to impress your date!

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About Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB): CMB  is a free dating service that helps members make meaningful connections. It’s designed for busy singles who want to find something real with little or no effort.

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SF 49ers vs. Baltimore Ravens: Who is beating who on Coffee Meets Bagel

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As Valentines Day rapidly approaches, our thoughts are turning to love, such as love of our significant others or newfound Bagels. However there’s one love that remains at the top of many people’s minds right now and will take top priority until this weekend is over: love of football.
This Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers take on the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl 47. The crazy twist? To win the NFL title, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Ravens coach John Harbaugh have to face off as brothers.
To commemorate this ultimate battle, we have gone the extra yards and unearthed some fun data about our members’ NFL team preferences, using their Facebook LIKES!
Most popular NFL teams in SF, NYC, Boston
The top 3 NFL teams in SF, NYC, Boston among Coffee Meets Bagel members were:
San Francisco: 
#1: SF 49ers
#2: SD Chargers
#3: NE Patriots
New York City:
#1: NY Giants
#2: NY Jets
#3: Philadelphia Eagles
Boston:
#1: NE Patriots
#2: NY Giants
#3: Philadelphia Eagles
Well, this was not at all surprising….what we immediately delved into next is “Which team fans are the most popular?!”
Which team fans are the most popular?
Of the above 6 teams, NE Patriots fans proved to be the most popular on CMB. They received 5.3% more LIKEs than Giants fans and 17.6% more LIKEs than 49ers fans.
Ravens Fans Come Out On Top
Which fans proved to be the cream of the crop? Ravens fans topped all three. Baltimore Ravens fans received 35.0%(!) more LIKEs than Patriots fans, 42.1% more LIKEs than NY Giants fans, and 58.8% more LIKEs than 49ers fans! Ravens fans are clearly the crowd favorite, but we’re not sure why. Don’t know what the outcome will be on Sunday but Ravens fans are clearly beating the 49ers on CMB!
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Other random facts
We also came across two random facts while doing the analysis.
Random fact 1: NFL male fans are taller than non-fans
First, males who indicated they are fans of some kind of NFL teams were on average 3 inches taller than non-fans (5’10” vs. 5’7”)!?!? Why? No idea.
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Random fact 2: NFL fans have more friends than non-fans
NFL fans had more Facebook friends than non-fans, and this effect held strong for both men and women (male: 881 friends vs. 825 friends, female: 927 friends vs. 829 friends).  OK, we know – this may just be a function of whoever is more active on Facebook, but nevertheless, it was a fun finding!
Good luck to the Baltimore Ravens & a little more luck to SF 49ers this Sunday! (sorry Ravens fans, we live in SF!)
 
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Credit:
Thanks to the following individuals for making this post happen!
Analysis: @Andy___Wong of http://andywong.authpad.com 
Write-up: @StevenMDean of http://dateworking.com
Graphics: @hungryrunner94 & @SurprenantK

Top 3 reasons to get fit

Top 3 reasons to get fit in 2013!

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The first month of 2013 is coming to an end soon but it’s still not too late to make a New Year’s resolution! Getting fit for the new year is the #1 resolution for many, and it isn’t too hard to guess why. There’s nothing sexier than being healthy!
Still not convinced? Here’s an infographic we put together that shows how being fit will not only make you look great, but it will also lead to a better sex life and relationship. Now get movin’!
Sources: Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, Peak Health Advocate, University of Minnesota
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online dating threatens monogamy?

The Best New Years Resolution

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By now, most people in the dating world have already seen or heard about the recent Atlantic article about how online dating is purportedly threatening monogamy as we know it. In the chaotic aftermath of that article, many people likely received frantic calls from their parents, pleading with them to close all their online dating accounts and to “stop trivializing romance!”
Fortunately for the monogamists and worried parents of the world, a rebuttal article surfaced on The Atlantic the next day, claiming that, statistically, there is little evidence to support such dire claims. But what the evidence did suggest is that online dating may actually lead to more marriages by helping people find more strongly compatible partners.
We at Coffee Meets Bagel wanted to jump into this debate, so last week we pushed out a survey asking our lovely bagels what they thought about online dating and whether it was affecting their ability to seek and sustain good relationships. We published a sneak peak of our results on Thursday, and we can confidently say that, at least among the Coffee Meets Bagel population, online dating has not diminished the majority of users’ desire or ability to find serious relationships.
Commitment is safe!
In fact, 65 percent of Coffee Meets Bagel users said they are primarily looking for a relationship. And online dating doesn’t seem to be hurting anyone’s prospects of finding that sort of relationship. When asked if online dating makes them want more casual dates and fewer serious relationships, 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women said that it has no impact either way, and interestingly, 14 percent of men and 40 percent of women said online dating has the opposite effect – it causes them to want more serious, monogamous relationships! This flies in the face of the original Slater article, which suggested that online daters would be paralyzed by the breadth of alternative matches and thus never be willing to fully commit to the match they found.
Online dating may actually help with commitment.
One interesting finding from our survey is that, of the people who believed that online dating made them actually want to more strongly seek committed relationships, most believed that as they met more and more people from online dating sites, they increasingly realized just how hard it can be to find the right match. Rather than give up on finding a match, our bagels seem to emerge from online dating more resolute than ever to find their special someone. Maybe that’s the best New Years resolution of all.
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About Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB): CMB  is a free dating service that helps members make meaningful connections. It’s designed for busy singles who want to find something real with little or no effort.

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Online Dating Does Not Threaten Monogamy!

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More detail to come this coming Sunday but here is a sneak preview on the results of the survey on online dating we conducted last week:
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‘Coffee Meets Bagel’ Data Reveals Online Dating Does Not Threaten Monogamy

Social dating site’s survey of more than 500 members shows that 67 percent of men and 79 percent of women are looking for a serious relationship or spouse.

Coffee Meets Bagel, a social dating site that utilizes its members’ social graphs to find daily matches, today announced the results of its survey on the effects that online dating has on singles. Findings include what users are looking for out of online dating services, how online dating affects their views on long-term relationships and their outlook on dating in today’s society.
Coming off the heels of the recent controversy surrounding online dating’s negative effect on monogamy, coupled with a spike in New Years resolutions surrounding dating, Coffee Meets Bagel sought to find out about its users’ preferences when it comes to using an online dating service.
Survey results reveal that online dating does not threaten monogamy, and it often times causes users to desire more serious relationships instead of continuous casual dates.
Online Dating Users Are Serious About Relationships:
Nearly 65 percent of Coffee Meets Bagel users said they are primarily looking for a serious relationship from online dating, with an almost even amount of men and women responding accordingly. An additional 13 percent of women and 4 percent of men claimed they are looking for a spouse.
When asked if online dating causes users to seek casual dates with multiple partners instead of serious relationships, 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women said it has no impact. In fact, another 14 percent of men and 40 percent of women said it has the opposite effect – online dating actually causes them to want more serious, monogamous relationships. The main reason mentioned for this was that meeting people via online dating reminded them of “how difficult it is to find the right person.”
In a comparison of online and offline dating, the majority said that online dating makes it easier to meet new, interesting people and go on casual dates without causing any difference in their ability to find a serious partner. Only 18 percent of men and women believe that online dating makes it more difficult to find a serious partner.
“The survey findings show us that there’s an opportunity for services like ours to help our members find what they’re looking for in the dating world without tainting their overall perspective on relationships,” said Dawoon Kang, co-founder of Coffee Meets Bagel. “What’s interesting is that the majority of our users are fairly young [in their twenties], yet they’re still looking for something serious. The survey results also break some of the gender stereotypes about dating – we think it’s encouraging to see that an equal number of men and women are looking for serious relationships from online dating and believe that it makes it easier to meet interesting people.”
How Do Men and Women Measure Up?
Just about half (49 percent) of men and exactly half of women say that online dating does not make their ability to find a serious partner any harder. The majority of both sexes agree that, in comparison to offline dating, it is much easier to meet new, interesting people via online services.
However, men and women have different opinions when it comes to pickiness. Of the 18 percent of respondents who believe online dating makes finding a serious relationship difficult, more than 50 percent of men believe this is the case because online dating has caused people to become pickier, whereas less than half of women find this to be true.