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Dating Site HowAboutWe Has A Cool Brooklyn Office [PHOTOS]

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Startups are known for their perks, and online dating site HowAboutWe is no exception.

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It's based in Dumbo, Brooklyn across from Brooklyn Roasting Company, and shares a building with dozens of other startups. Its industrial office has a fully-stocked fridge, music playing throughout the day, and some of its 43 employees bring their dogs in to work.

We spent an afternoon with Co-founder Aaron Schildkrout at his company's headquarters, where he shared with us how he and Co-founder Brian Schechter created a dynamic culture while keeping pace with rapid growth. (To date, HowAboutWe has raised $18.5 million and is about to hit 1 million users.)

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HowAboutWe is based in Dumbo, Brooklyn, just a short walk from the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.

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Since it's Brooklyn, there are lots of bikes parked outside its building — even in the winter. About 10 percent of HowAboutWe staffers bike to work.

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Across the street is Brooklyn Roasting Company, a popular coffee shop for startups and other creative professionals to take meetings.

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Inside we're greeted by Victoria Germano, HowAboutWe's operations manager.

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Co-founders Aaron Schildkrout, left, and Brian Schechter sit in the center of the office. They're childhood friends who were both teachers before launching the dating site.

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They've hired 43 employees since launching HowAboutWe in April 2010.

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Brad Heintz, Jerry Wong and James Paolantonio make up the iOS development team. They're looking at development stories in Pivotal Tracker.

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This is a developer standup meeting. Other teams also hold AM standing meetings.

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The kitchen is fully stocked.

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Kate Huyett, who's taking a call at the communal tables, worked at Goldman Sachs before becoming HowAboutWe's VP of Acquisition, Retention & Revenue.

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Senior Engineer Rebecca Miller-Webster works on HowAboutWe for Couples, one of its newer products.

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That's the Couples dashboard, which shows daily, real-time metrics.

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On the design wall, employees weigh in with Post-It notes. "It's kind of like analog A/B testing," says Schildkrout.

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Schildkrout spends a lot of his time walking around the office, strategizing with different teams.

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Across the room three senior engineers discuss their gameplan for the day.

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As we're leaving, Schildkrout is still making the rounds.

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Now it's back to Business Insider's office in Manhattan.

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