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by abbasmehdi 5528 days ago
"I'm looking to find some market/industry statistics."

Not necessary to prove its a big market because everybody knows there is a demand in this space - no point selling that point.

You can just go by how much revenue you can steal from big companies: "30% of Match users leave before meeting someone", "LavaLife has $x million is revenue that has been growing for at this rate", "Personals in papers and Craigslist have x number of users, trying to do y but can't".