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GoWalla Founder discuss battle w/FourSquare & Facebook
Great interview with founder of GoWalla on the value of product design, FourSquare's success, integrating with the "enemies" and Facebook.
- HectorRamos 16y agoThis was a great show to watch live. Liked the discussion on creating a startup outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, building on top of the Facebook and Foursquare platform, and creating great company culture.
- jasonmcalacanis 16y agoFor those who want to watch live, the show is taped on Tuesday and Friday at 1PM pacific time.the show can be seen live:http://www.thisweekin.com/livehttp://www.ustream.tv/thisweekin http://www.thisweekin.com/livehttp://www.ustream.tv/thisweek...
- jonathanjaeger 16y agoHe talks a lot about Austin and creating a company culture there. There's been a lot of talk about NYC vs. Silicon Valley, but great companies can happen in more than two cities (Living Social in D.C., Gowalla in Austin, Mahalo in L.A., etc.). Seems like many people are talking about the perks of starting outside of the Valley more and more as it becomes a little easier to do so over time.
- jasonmcalacanis 16y agoThat's a good thing to point out... first guest we've had from Austin and he make a ton of great points on why it's a great place to put your company.
- markjeffrey 16y agoExtra interesting interview since Gowalla just integrated Foursquare (!) Josh explains why he did that -- the 'turn around and hug the bear that's chasing you' move.
- AWOL 16y agoI give it 2-3 years before both of these companies start losing a massive amount of members, and people just stop checking in...about the same time when the global consciousness realizes social media was a fun game but that its time to grow up.