Where's the future for FourSquare?

Audience is growing large. They need to continue to innovate on the game mechanics beyond “check ins” and build deeper, more meaningful relationships with merchants.

For this stage in the game – they’ve executed beautifully.

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I have recently been given the opportunity to invest in a start-up that has a huge potential. It involves exclusive Canadian rights for sales of a premium product with hig...

Answered by April Dunford – Product Marketing Expert.

This would be a good question for a VC - just like you, they set a value on a company in order to determine what their share is worth and part of that negotiation is how to... (more)

What do you think of the Groupon Model? Where do you think the internet is taking us for the future? Thank again!

Answered by Dan Martell – Founder & Investor. Posted in Lessons

I love Groupon (especially Andrew the founder). As for their model, I think you'll see it evolve over time. They just recently release personalization which is just the b... (more)

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Answered by Tim Berry – Founder of Palo Alto Software

You know that's hard to do. I'll tell you that with Palo Alto Software when we were struggling and broke but had some solid product ideas, I offered programmers a monthly f... (more)

Hi Dan. My startup targets developers/product mangers/designers; We launched the landing page 3months ago and got ~600 signups up to date. We were thinking about launching ...

Answered by Dan Martell – Founder & Investor.

Don't give away free accounts for feedback - just launch it and survey your users in cohorts (I recommend www.survey.io) - I've typically gotten 50% response rates, so no n... (more)

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Answered by Matt Meeker – Co-founder of Meetup.com

It's changed SO much in the past 2 years. The support for entrepreneurs is incredible. There's now an ecosystem of support where you can learn how to get your business ... (more)

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