Just another reason to keep a set of Cheek'd cards handy.
Just another reason to keep a set of Cheek'd cards handy.
These are the top selections for the Cheek'y Pickup Line Competition powered by openinvo.com.
The Cheek'd Team would like to thank everyone who submitted their selections, they were all great. So in no particular order, here are the best lines we recieved.
“let's share a bottle of wine and a game of twister.”
-Brenda Morse
“i'm a catch. here's the bait.”
“no business. just pleasure.”
-John Vogan
"i'd give up carbs for you."
"i have my own health insurance."
-Elizabeth Demcsak
"if there was something about me you'd like to bottle and sip slowly, what would it be?”
-Terri Trespicio
"hello! majestic!"
-Byron H
“let's kiss and make up, preemptively.”
-Keith Emmer
“you have quite a nice smile...”
-Younghye Hwang
“the tan line on this finger...band-aid.”
-Liz Longo
“mom will love me.”
-Suzan Bond
It's a his & hers thing:
His: "Nice shoes."
Hers: "Yes."
-Alexandre Lamarre
“my phone battery is dead anyway”
“haven't you seen me somewhere before?”
-Kevin Haughwout
“i literally just wrote a rap about you.”
“if you're into me, blink once or more.”
-Andrew Loos
"ok this now, is the ‘first sight’?"
"one year from now, this could be a memory."
-Mohan Arun
“darling i’ve never worn a size small...why should I start with you?”
-CR
“i’m from your future”
-Adrian Wilson
"i make a good omelet"
"your smile is infectious. Are you contagious?"
- Peter Bougdanos
"since you can't google me yet..."
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"i literally just wrote a rap about you."
"my phone battery's dead anyway."
"get to know me before i'm famous."
"i just cheek'd your mom."
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Cheek'd in Portuguese: "Cheekd.com became the latest online dating success, to ally themselves with the functions of a site of its kind to the traditional method of Cupid." http://mulher.sapo.pt/
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The fledgling company was one of several on display at Tech Cocktail, a regular event hosted by the D.C. media company of the same name. It aims to display the city’s latest ventures.
VidAppy launches today as a hub where job applicants answer a series of stock questions — “Why are you the best candidate for the job?” — on camera. The videos are then stored on the site for employers to peruse or the clips are sent to them directly.
“You and I know in 10 seconds [of meeting in person] whether we can work together, so let’s do that part first instead of last,” said co-founder Jody Presti.
Speaking of introductions. . .
A second company featured at the gathering is creating a business around just that. Matthew Tendler and Dan Berger were both invited to weddings when the idea for Social Tables hit them. The Web site allows event planners to input seating arrangements so that table mates can meet in advance online.
The site has attracted 740 users in its first month who can log in to see the names and photos of table mates, find out where they’re from, where they work and went to college, and chat with them online.
As one attendee put it: They aim to kill small talk.
Another pair of start-ups at Tech Cocktail also had their eye on the event space, but to a different aim.
Kojami offers a Web site and smartphone application that allows users to scan a bar code on an event flier to immediately upload details and directions, as well as buy a ticket or suggest it to friends.
Meanwhile, Spontaneous lets those looking for a night out scour event listings. Over time, the site begins to learn your interests — basketball games vs. indie concerts, for example — and suggests activities you might enjoy.
At an adjacent table, Democrats Ray Glendening and Nathan Daschle explained how they left the campaign trail to launch Ruck.us. The social network is built with the idea that younger voters have turned to the Web for political expression.
The three-week-old site connects like-minded users based on political positions, and could soon allow them to interact with one another and take collective action by endorsing candidates or petitioning legislators.
“We want to take the power back to the grass roots,” said Glendening, the son of former Maryland governor Parris N. Glendening. Daschle is the son of former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
Other ventures on display included:
• Start Some Good acts as a fundraising platform for do-gooders looking to bankroll small, charitable projects.
• Ohava connects businesses, nonprofits or other entities with free, open-source software that can be tools for customer relationship management or Web conferencing, among other uses.
• For the adult sports leagues across the country, LeagueApps touts an online platform to register players, organize teams, coordinate events and facilitate player interaction.
• Snack & Munch allows buyers to customize orders of 24 snacks that brothers Ammar and Farooq Yousuf then ship to offices, homes, college dorms and military bases.
• TroopSwap serves the military market by offering daily deals tailored to soldiers and their families.
• Tapped In brings the digital relationships you establish on networks like Twitter or LinkedIn into the physical world through events.
• SpanishDict launched in 1999 as an online Spanish-English dictionary, but has expanded its product range in recent years to include translation services, flash cards and quizzes for Spanish learners.
• In the crowded market of daily deals, Coupo.st aggregates the offers in your area. But the start-up’s wrinkle is that it also scours other locales for deals at restaurants or retailers that have outposts in your area.
• Cheek’d, a New York-based start-up, blends online dating with in-the-flesh introductions. Subscribers buy business-like cards that include a cute quip and personal code with a corresponding Web profile. He or she then doles them out and hopes the recipient sends an online message.
What do you think about the concept of online dating in reverse? NYC-based Cheek’d is a clever new service that introduces real-life spontaneity to online dating. The concept promotes the use of an intriguing and provocative set of business card-sized introductions used to engage a romantic prospect when feeling awkward, shy, or simply desiring a new approach.
This is definitely a fun idea: Cheek’d users can express their interest in someone by coyly handing them a small black card that contains a cheeky phrase such as “act natural. we can get awkward later” or “i just put all my drinks on your tab.” The recipient is invited to go online to check out your profile and decide whether he or she would like to make contact with you through the Cheek’d internal messaging service (personal information and privacy are protected).
When you compare the costs of popular online-only dating sites, Cheek’d is a pretty good deal. It’s $25 to join; you get an online profile and a set of 50 cards each with a different phrase – and a unique ID number to direct those who receive the cards to the online profile to learn more about the card giver. Your first month’s service comes with your initial deck of cards. Each month thereafter, the fee is just $9.95. Trial decks of 5 cards are also available for $5 and also include your first month’s service.
The idea has taken off: they have customers in 39 states and 12 countries and won the TechStars Startup Madness Tournament for Best New Tech Idea 2011.
Cheek’d is one of the sponsors for our Tech Cocktail DC Summer Mixer tomorrow night, so be sure to look for one of the team members at the event.
‘Life’ the board game had sex with ‘Sim City’ the computer game. It’s first child is called “Cheek’d”
Cheek’d is online dating, reversed.
The How It Works tab on cheekd.com explains the concept as follows…
“Cheek’d bridges the gap between online dating and real-world romance. Shop offline and avert another missed connection.
Each member receives a deck of calling cards with a series of witty quips and their own personal code. Members can then slip one of the cards to an alluring stranger encountered in their everyday lives – be it in the market, at a restaurant or on the train during a morning commute. The recipient of the card logs onto the Cheek’d website, enters the code, reviews the card-giver’s profile and then can send the card-giver a message for free.
The upshot – Cheek’d provides a fun, unimposing way to meet that intriguing person who has just sparked your interest. It protects you from the dreaded blind dating/ bait-and-switch aspect of other online dating sites by offering real world, real time connections.”
This interactive concept shows how human and computer can play off of each other. Hot off its 2011 Startup Madness win, Cheek’d should be able to improve their innovative concept.
A logical next step is to carve out niches within dating. For example, a techie guy should be able to purchase digital roses and send them across the room to an attractive ladies smartphone. Artsy cheekers could design their own cards and pass a custom colored card instead of the standard template offered.
Follow Cheek’d's progress through it’s Founder @loricheeknyc
1025_ 6/6/11 - Well believe it or not, we are at the Glue Conference talking to an architect. We've got a little bit of a twist here, of course being at Glue Con such things do get twisted. As well, there is a TechStar connection here too. Meet Lori Cheek - First an overview about who Lori is and how she went from the art and science of architecture to the world of technology. She is an architect by training and worked in New York City's design and architecture world for 15 years. A few years ago she came up with an idea that led her into the tech world and she has abandoned her career in architecture. It all started when she was out for dinner with a guy friend at a restaurant and they were getting ready to leave. He had written on the back of his business card, "Want to have dinner?", and he slid that to a woman, and we kept going. Lori remembers thinking how mysterious and intriguing that would be to have a handsome man give you this card. Then she thought about taking it to the next level... by not having your personal information on these cards. So Lori created this deck of (business sized) cards called You've Been Cheek'd, based on her last name Cheek. They all have a witty ice breaker such as, "Our fate is in your hands." or perhaps "My dog likes your dog". Then they all have a code that leads to an online profile. It's a little bit like handing your business card, minus the personal information. Lori says, "It's like an online dating service, but you're making the initial connections off line and then you take it online via the code provided on the card. Lori's company just won the TechStar's Startup Madness Tournament, beating out 63 other new startups for the Best New Idea of 2011. One of the prizes was an expense paid trip to Glue Con. Lori says, "It's been a mind blowing experience here. My advice is live your dream."
Keep Calm And Carry On is an advice column to help you maintain balance between your work life and personal life by giving you tips that will help keep your mental health intact.
At the advent of online dating, people’s skepticism about the practice stemmed from the dubiousness of taking the nuanced gestures and subtle chemistry of a first encounter and trying to filter them through messages, a list of likes and dislikes, and digital “pokes” and “winks.” Now the practice has been inverted — many of us rely on the veiled distance and convenience the internet provides. Who wants to come up with a good line and look cute doing it when it’s so much easier to type a quippy opener from the comfort of your own home? More importantly, most of us cannot waste three vodka soda’s worth of time and money at a bar trying to meet somebody. With late nights at the office and a long commute, it’s hard to put on your dancing pants and drag yourself to the post-work Happy Hour, much less seem excited and cheerful about doing it.
So, it’s settled: internet dating is the way to go for a busy, 21st century gal. If they’d had Match.com in 1987 when Baby Boom was made, that’s what J.C. Wiatt would have done, instead of having to quit her job and move all the way to Vermont just to meet a hunky veterinarian. A quick lap around the JDate pool will let you know that there are plenty of D.V.M.s, PhD’s, and M.D.’s within your zip code.
Still, for the professional set, internet dating brings with it a whole new set of sticky circumstances. For example, coming across your co-workers’ profiles online is not unlike watching The Ring: you won’t be able to get those images out of your head, no matter how hard you try. Next time you run into Jason from Marketing, all you’ll be able to see is him, on a beach in Cabo, wearing a Speedo. And, even though you are a tasteful and discreet person who doesn’t put overly revealing pictures of herself on the internet, do you really want to think about your coworkers scrolling through your profile late at night? I didn’t think so.
Kentucky-born entrepreneur Lori Cheek seems to have found the happy medium. This past winter, she launched the website Cheekd.com (as in, “You’ve been Cheek’d!”). According to their website, “Cheek’d bridges the gap between online dating and real-world romance. Shop offline and avert another missed connection.” How many times have you seen an adorable, scruffy-haired man reading your favorite novel on the subway and wanted to talk to him? But you didn’t because you were too shy, or you were distracted thinking about your mental checklist for that day and couldn’t think of something to say, or you had to get off at the next stop and didn’t have time to say hello. That’s where Cheek comes in. You hand him a card that says something like, “I need a date to my sister’s wedding,” “I couldn’t find a napkin,” “Act natural, we can get awkward later,” or, simply, “Hi.”
Also printed on the card is a code. The object of your affection can log in at Cheekd.com and type in the code to get in touch with you. As Bump is the working woman’s new business card, Cheek’s cards are the working woman’s new dating site message, which was her new…um…talking, I guess? It seems we’ve come full circle, but I like it. Cheek’d capitalizes on a busy, professional’s need for speed (How quickly can you whip out your Cheek’d deck and drop a card next to man’s cocktail napkin? And…Go!), yet eradicates the stigma and impersonal vibe of internet dating.
For those of you shy birds, there’s something for you to hook up with your new special someone – or next adventure. Cheek’d is a completely different kind of dating/social networking site.
If you’re on the prowl for a love connection, Cheek’d makes it a bit more accessible for anyone to flirt in a demure manner. And you know what? I kind of love this idea. Many times I’ve seen people that I’ve wanted to talk to, but it’s super nerve wrecking and awkward. But Cheek’d makes it cute and engaging. You simply order “flirt cards” which are look similar to business cards that say cute phrases. On the back of the card it sends the person you’ve got your eye on to a personalized code. They submit it at Cheek’d.com to learn more about you.
If I were single I’d be all up on this. It’s cute, flirty and and not too forward. Yet at the same time it’s intriguing enough to reel someone in. It’s worth a try if you’re on the market. It digital dating genius I think.
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We are living in the digital age. We buy our movie tickets onFandango, make reservations at our favorite restaurant onOpenTable and even use the web to find that special someone with whom we can share these experiences with.
People have been using the web for dating since the days when you had to connect to AOL via a screaming 56k modem only to find yourself immersed in creep-filled chat rooms, with strangers prompting you with the all too famous “A/S/L?”. Over the years however, people have become more comfortable with the idea of online dating and are doing it more than ever (dating that is).
Sure you can use your favorite social media outlet to find someone who interests you, but why bother when there are a ton of sites out there that find potential matches for you. Sites like OKCupid.comprovide users with a free to use service where they can sign up, create profiles and start browsing local singles. You answer a series of questions and based on your answers you are matched up with other singles.
There are also premium dating sites that users pay to access. Sites like Match.com (which recently bought OKCupid) oreharmony.com essentially match you up with singles that fit various criteria. Then there are sites like Cheekd.com which is taking a new approach.
Cheekd.com is bridging the gap between the web and real life encounters. They offer their members cards which can be handed out should you happen to meet someone who has sparked your interest. Card recipients can then access the member’s profile by entering the code found on the card. With this daring new tactic, Cheek’d is empowering their users with a sense of mystery which in turn may intrigue the recipients of these cards even more and provoke connections.
We are all looking for that special someone and in this day and age the web is making finding him or her a lot easier. At first it seemed as though people were uncomfortable with meeting strangers online but gradually it has grown to be much more socially acceptable and we are curious to see how many people are using online dating sites 10 years from now, and what kind of innovative ideas they will implement to stir things up a bit.
Jay-Z’s new website, titled “Life & Times”, is a hub featuring a fusion of the rapper’s everyday activities and things that he finds inspirational, which he depicts in a Tumblr-esque layout. Users are encouraged to “Like” and provide comments, which allows for an authentic connection that most celebrities are not utilizing.
Child-stars-turned-fashion-moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have launched StyleMint, a web-based clothing recommendation/subscription service, live this July. The site will offer products in a similar delivery method to other subscription sites like ShoeDazzle.com andSendTheTrend.com—however when users sign up they are sent a variety of product suggestions each month and are then able to buy from the selection.
Congrats are in order for, Cheek’d (a new age online dating service), as they are the winners of the inaugural TechStars Startup Madness tournament! Thank you to all of our friends and clients for voting them to the top.
Remember back in the late ’90′s where meeting people online seemed scary and dangerous? Now online dating is the new norm and it’s meeting people in real life that seems intimidating. How do you approach that cute stranger on the subway, in a coffee shop, the book store…? And what do you say? “Missed Connection” ads are a fine idea, but only if your mystery person actually happens to read it. Cheek’d is a dating site determined to bring dating back to the real world and get people to approach one another by making flirting playful and fun again.
The way it works is simple – set up a super short free profile on cheekd.com. Purchase a set of cards (only $5 to start) that have cute, flirtatious phrases and an personal access code. When you meet someone intriguing just hand them a card that directs them to your profile where they can contact you if interested. You needn’t say a word (but, you can, of course). The premise is kept as basic as possible to bypass the often annoying task of writing online profiles that feel like college admission essays or scrolling through thousands of profiles to find someone you like. Cheek’d is to the point and essentially acts like a personalized site, designed to showcase you and you alone. Most online dating sites also ignore a primary and essential part of attraction – chemistry. As good as someone might seem typed out, you may meet them in real life and find you’re not as attracted to them as you thought. Cheek’d reverses this process and adds a layer of fun to it that makes it much easier to engage with the site as well as other potential love interests off-site.
As founder Lori Cheek puts it:
“It’s almost like a childish thing of passing a folded up note…Almost like ‘tag, you’re it’ for urban singles!”
Cheek’d has thousands of users in 39 states and 12 countries. Users can buy customized cards with whatever phrases they like, including choosing from pre-written one-liners and the cards can be printed in any language and are gender neutral, making them accessible to any user. Cheek’d is also developing more specialized pre-designed decks including a New York City deck, a fitness deck for gym goers, and a business deck (“My Amex is also this color”). Other future plans include launching a Facebook where virtual cards can be sent to friends and an iPhone app that lets you connect to nearby Cheek’d users.
Cheek’d is also on Foursquare and plans to integrate location-based apps more in the future, such as partnering with bars to offer free cards to the mayor and free exclusive giveaways. They already host monthly mixer parties where cards can be purchased and activated on the spot. New York singles are invited to attend one of these parties on the Lower East Side tonight. Swing by and be reminded of when dating used to be fun!
