GoWalla Founder discuss battle w/FourSquare & Facebook

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Post by jasonmcalacanis » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:09 PM UTC

Great interview with founder of GoWalla on the value of product design, FourSquare's success, integrating with the "enemies" and Facebook.

GoWalla Founder discuss battle w/FourSquare & Facebook
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Post by HectorRamos » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:19 PM UTC

This 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.

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Post by jonathanjaeger » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:32 PM UTC

He 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.

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Post by jasonmcalacanis » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:33 PM UTC

jonathanjaeger wrote: post #3

He 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.

That'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.

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Post by jasonmcalacanis » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:34 PM UTC

HectorRamos wrote: post #2

This 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.

For 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/thisweek...

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Post by markjeffrey » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

Extra 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.

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Post by AWOL » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 9:44 PM UTC

I 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.