Janis Spindel

{{short description|American matchmaker, author, and entrepreneur}}

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Janis Spindel is a matchmaker, author, and entrepreneur.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2008-02-12-matchmakers-main_N.htm|title=Professionals pay matchmakers to be 'headhunters for the heart' |website=USATODAY.com|access-date=2017-04-18}} According to her website, she created the matchmaking service after matching fourteen couples who married within one year.{{cite web|url=http://www.hilary.com/dating/janis-spindel.html |title=Janis Spindel: NY's Dating Queen Matchmaker – HILARY MAGAZINE |access-date=2009-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303150443/http://hilary.com/dating/janis-spindel.html |archive-date=2009-03-03 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.janisspindelmatchmaker.com/about.htm |title=Upscale Matchmaker Service, Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking, Inc |access-date=2009-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703171932/http://www.janisspindelmatchmaker.com/about.htm |archive-date=2009-07-03 }}{{cite web|url=http://laurielikesbooks.blog-city.com/janis_spindel_author_of_how_to_date_men.htm |title=Janis Spindel, author of How to Date Men [laurielikesbooks.blog-city.com] |access-date=2009-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708013901/http://laurielikesbooks.blog-city.com/janis_spindel_author_of_how_to_date_men.htm |archive-date=2011-07-08 }} Before entering the matchmaking field, she owned nine retail locations of "Mommy and Me". Spindel has been involved with several charities. Spindel is also a former fashion executive.{{cite news |last=Kuczynski |first=Alex |date=14 February 1999 |title=PERSONAL BUSINESS; Running Cupid's Wall Street Office |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/14/business/personal-business-running-cupid-s-wall-street-office.html |access-date=2017-04-18 |newspaper=The New York Times}}

As the founder, her company, Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking, Inc., was established in 1993 and is headquartered in New York City on the Upper East Side{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/magazine/13MATCHMAKING.html|title=The New Arranged Marriage|first=Melanie|last=Thernstrom|date=13 February 2005|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2017-04-18}} and, in the summer months, in the Hamptons. She had traveled to the US and Canada for her clients.{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2008/09/janis-spindel-s.html |title=Janis Spindel, Serious Matchmaking, Inc. Interview – Online Personals Watch: News on the Dating Industry and Business |publisher=Online Personals Watch |date=2008-09-06 |access-date=2017-04-18}} The website was launched in 2005.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} She originally worked with both men and women, but now only works with men.{{cite web|url=http://www.janisspindelmatchmaker.com/formenonly.htm |title=Upscale Matchmaker Service, Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking, Inc |access-date=2009-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211125620/http://janisspindelmatchmaker.com/formenonly.htm |archive-date=2009-02-11 }} She specializes in upscale professionals.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2862830&page=1|title=My Date With Janis Spindel, Matchmaker|date=14 February 2007|website=Abcnews.go.com|access-date=2017-04-18}}