20 years, multiple investors, one success story: DACE.hu
11/24/20 • 15 min
Peter Weiler is the managing director and founder of Dating Central Europe, Hungary’s leading online dating company.He started his career as a graphic and web designer in 1995 and was involved in launching Hungary’s leading news portal Origo for Hungarian Telekom in 1998. He started his own company Habostorta with a group of co-investors in the year 2000. Habostorta was the first entertainment and dating portal in Hungary that merged into the newly founded Dating Central Europe in 2014. Peter has been actively involved in developing and growing the online dating business in Hungary and the CEE region ever since. Dating Central Europe joined the Russmedia family 18 months ago, and for that reason, we wanted to chat with him and see how he sees in retrospective the negotiation, the onboarding process and what it is that a company should be looking for when in search of an investor.
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Peter Weiler is the managing director and founder of Dating Central Europe, Hungary’s leading online dating company.He started his career as a graphic and web designer in 1995 and was involved in launching Hungary’s leading news portal Origo for Hungarian Telekom in 1998. He started his own company Habostorta with a group of co-investors in the year 2000. Habostorta was the first entertainment and dating portal in Hungary that merged into the newly founded Dating Central Europe in 2014. Peter has been actively involved in developing and growing the online dating business in Hungary and the CEE region ever since. Dating Central Europe joined the Russmedia family 18 months ago, and for that reason, we wanted to chat with him and see how he sees in retrospective the negotiation, the onboarding process and what it is that a company should be looking for when in search of an investor.
Check out our website for more information.
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