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Comment by MojoJolo | Hacker News Reader

If that's the case, can a founder who failed in the dotcom era repeats his idea and might be successful?

If we can find an example of this, it would be awesome.

Dodgeball/Foursquare is the canonical example. dens is relentless. (dodgeball wasn't so much a failure, but was a smaller success than 4sq to date)

I hope the things I did/failed at during dotcom (a datahaven beyond the reach of nation-states, and electronic cash) end up being things I can do successfully in the future.

Great example. demonstrates the fact that if you keep solving problems in one domain / area, one day you will solve a really painful problem profitably

Maybe -- it's not clear that 4sq is a winner, but if there were any single person who I would bet on coming up with a profitable mobile location service, it would be him. If not 4sq, whatever he does next.

As far as I can tell, Foursquare has basically pivoted to become a Yelp competitor. I was excited about it initially because I thought they were going to do cool things to enable real-world socialization, but there's really none of that now. It's all about the places, not the people.

It's going to take a completely new approach to make location-based social networking a world changer like Facebook was.

From what I've read, ingress might be version 0.01 of that. I don't have an android device to try it out though.

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