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Meet PickMiDate, a website giving dates as prizes

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Birmingham

Imagine combining dating with a game show and local business promotion. Erin Rose and Sean O'Brien did just that and came up with PickMiDate.

"Sean and I were kicking around ideas and the idea formed in two hours," says Rose, co-founder of PickMiDate.

The web start-up allows singles looking for fun to vote on the best Q&A answers posted by fellow singles. The contest winners get an all-expenses paid date to a local downtown, such as Birmingham or Royal Oak or Ferndale. Voters will also receive some prizes.

"Our goal is to promote local businesses and local downtowns," says co-founder O'Brien. "If we grow, that's a bonus but we want to help local singles and local businesses."

The fledgling Birmingham-based start-up plans to focus on the suburbs along the Woodward corridor first. It hopes to spread to other nearby posh locales, such as Grosse Pointe, Northville, and Ann Arbor within the year.

Source: Erin Rose and Sean O'Brien, co-founders of PickMiDate
Writer: Jon Zemke

Innovation & Job News

Meet PickMiDate, a website giving dates as prizes

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