Marriage network century Jia Yuan plan three-year login Nasdaq

Sina Science and technology news July 28 morning, the domestic marriage and love website century Jiayuan (jiayuan.com) founder and CEO Shanhaiyan yesterday to Sina Technology revealed that the company plans to log in three years in the Nasdaq stock exchange market. If the plan is smooth, century Jiayuan is expected to become the first in the Nasdaq-listed marriage website.

and SNS social network, online games and other markets compared to the market development of love and marriage is relatively slow. Founded for nearly 5 years, the century Jiayuan in the face of the listing of the topic is still more cautious, which with many internet companies in the early days of the start-up that High-profile throw out the listing plan is different.

According to the introduction, Century Jia Yuan was founded on October 8, 2003, the beginning of the positioning as a "pure love for the purpose of dating sites." At present, the company's team of more than 160 people, daily average of 25000 registered members, a daily average of independent IP 2.2 million, PV more than 70 million, members of the daily station to send information about 2 million. In Baidu Index, its user concern index is 10 times times more than the main competitor.

Over the past 5 years, the century Jiayuan has won a total of about 200 million yuan, including Angel Investment and venture capital. Shanhaiyan told Sina Technology, the company currently cash abundant, 2 years do not need to continue to finance. However, because some investors entered the earlier, she hoped that the company will be founded 8 years on the occasion of listing, to investors a satisfactory account.

The sale is a major channel for investors to exit smoothly, but Shanhaiyan says it will not sell the site. "This is my career, my feelings are in it, and I am a willing to worry about the people, after the sale I have nothing to do." "Shanhaiyan said.

Therefore, she hopes to make the company listed, and the Nasdaq, HKEX listing is not unreachable dream. Although the century Jiayuan has been done for nearly 5 years, but Alibaba, Jinshan, new Oriental listed companies have proved that "slow company" also has a good way out. Shanhaiyan hopes that the century Jiayuan is on the market when it is over 8 years old. Even after the IPO investors have gone, they will insist on doing it.

According to Shanhaiyan forecast, 2008 will have tens of millions of yuan income, but still "make ends meet". Advertising is currently the most important expenditure, bandwidth investment and staff costs also accounted for a large piece. She expects to achieve a break-even in the first half of next year, meeting the Nasdaq listing requirements within three years.

At present, the century Jia Yuan main income comes from the line and the bottom two big blocks. The former includes advertising, value-added products (virtual gifts, VIP Member Services), the latter through the online marriage service, and the annual hundreds of-match matchmaking meeting will earn income. At the same time, Shanhaiyan has set up an independent wedding site, through E-commerce, using the hands of millions of member resources to the love and marriage industry downstream development, the development of more value-added services.

For the Love and marriage website market potential space, Shanhaiyan expressed the optimistic. According to statistics from the relevant departments, China's nearly 10 million people each year knot marriage, the annual due to the narrow consumption of the total amount has reached 300 billion yuan. (