Inspir.es

This is the “Plenty of Fish team.” The same team that’s responsible for 3.5 million monthly visitors and over $10 million in annual profit.

CTO – Markus Frind
CFO – Markus Frind
VP Business Development – Markus Frind
VP Marketing – Markus Frind
Development Team – Markus Frind
Board Members – Markus Frind
Customer Service – Markus Frind and Girlfriend

Here’s how Frind describes starting the site:

I originally created the site because I had to learn ASP.NET and I didn’t want to buy a book, so I created the site and just kept adding things to it. I had to continue to learn new things and it became a dating center; it wasn’t meant to be an actual site. Then I wanted to learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization), so then I read up on SEO and I integrated that into the site and taught myself. It just kept growing and every time I wanted to learn something, I would add that to the site. Eventually it just became a huge thing.

Oh, so that’s how you build a top 1,000 website.