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CSB Interviews - Josh Weinstein of GoodCrush
March 2, 2010
Company: GoodCrush.com
Name: Josh Weinstein
Title : Founder
Email : reps(at)goodcrush.com
Give us the 30-second elevator pitch of your company
GoodCrush is focused on connecting student bodies. We started out with the CrushFinder – a simple anonymous matching service where you have a risk-free way of making a match - that was used by 30% of Princeton within 24 hours of launch. Now we are spreading the love to other campuses nation-wide and have requests from international schools as well. We’re constantly adding functionality and currently have profiles, messaging, Top 10 and the very-popular missed connections.
Tell us about the founders, who they are, backgrounds, and why they are passionate about your company
I started GoodCrush with a simple idea – there should be a way to connect people in a risk-free way. I created the CrushFinder and launched it the day before Valentine’s Day of 2007 as a student government project while I was Vice-President. My passion for the company is rooted in the success of and excitement created by the initial launch of the CrushFinder as well as the subsequent match stories, requests for additional features, as well as new schools reaching out for the service.
Do you have funding?
Yes. We raised seed funding from FirstMark Capital to get us to launch and are currently looking to raise our next round.
How do you make money?
Dating sites and social networks have proven a wide array of business models. At the moment, we aim to improve the functionality and utility of the service as much as possible before implementing potential revenue models. Among the ideas we are considering are premium services and virtual goods.
What are your startup’s goals for this year?
The goal up until now was to build an offering to whet the appetites of students and generate excitement for our upcoming features. This year, we aim to expand the number of schools significantly and add the functionality that will make GoodCrush a truly unique, compelling, and useful service.
What makes GoodCrush different from the hundreds of other dating sites out there?
I’m hesitant to place GoodCrush in the same category of “the hundreds of other dating sites out there.” GoodCrush focuses on connecting student bodies – bringing people together within dense and insulated social networks. Although we see an opportunity for inter-campus interaction down the line, our core focus right now is on intra-campus crushing and matching. There are people that you already like or have noticed on campus, and those people may like you…we are changing the way people connect on campus by helping facilitate that connection.
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