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In this final segment: Holger Luedorf, VP Mobile and Internation at Foursquare and I explore Foursquare’s view on mobile commerce and enablement and how the relationship with their partner American Express has panned out, their thoughts on how NFC will impact their business, the importance of their new product Save to Foursquare and how Foursquare views the competition.

In the second part of this three part episode (part one can be found here), Holger Luedorf, VP Mobile and Internation for Foursquare, and I go deeper into the way merchants use Foursquare to drive foot trafic, the Foursquare monetization strategy and international expansion and localization.

This is part one of a three part interview I did with Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile and International at Foursquare. In this episode we discuss his background, what the appeal of working at the company for him was, the massive changes that happen to a company in rapid growth and transition and some of the things that excite him about what Foursquare is doing.

How do you use mobile to bring customers into your business? This is the single most important question retailers should be asking themselves as the world moves from the stationary screen to the one in their customers pocket. It is also the single focus of Candice Faktor and her Toronto startup ShopCatch. Candice talks passionately [...]

This is as much a startup story about using your iPhone and Android devices to find out where your family is as it is about finding your way as a startup in the mobile industry. Life360 turns your phone into the ultimate family safety device and was co-founded by Chris Hulls and funded by Dave [...]

If you’ve ever purchased a daily deal or two you’ve quickly realized a few challenges that, in hindsight, are obvious. The first is that you need to find the one service you want from the hundreds of daily deal services that are operating today. Second is you need to be on top of the deals [...]

I’m not sure this session needs an introduction – certainly not the other guy in the episode: Mike Schneider, AKA Schneidermike. Schneidermike, SVP at the digital incubator inside of Allen & Gerritson, is a leading leading leading thinker in the location-as-dialtone world we are entering and is the co-author of the most comprehensive book on [...]