information How Harry Potter Geek Created FOURSQUARE and went from $1 to $1 Billion

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Foursquare.com is a location data platform that was created by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai. They launched with playfoursquare.com in early 2009 and after its first round of funding, first thing Foursquare did was purchase the foursquare.com domain.
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[Michael Ehrhardt]

thx

 

[awwalmb]

Harry Potter. Thanks for sharing

 

[Randolph]

Does the article include the misuse of customer data and their sketchy harvesting practices?

 

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Does the article include the misuse of customer data and their sketchy harvesting practices?

Nope. It includes early days, getting first users, growing business.... On harvesting data...I dont know, I am pretty sure all social networks harvest your data(Facebook, anyone?), thats why I dont have any social profiles or apps such as Yelp or Foursquare.

 

[vikki88]

Thanks for the article