How I Almost Competed With Tinder

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A developer recounts a three-year entrepreneurial attempt to build a playful, fun, free online dating app intended to challenge Tinder. The talk describes leaving employment to found the startup with a developer partner, and shares practical lessons learned and mistakes made during the product and business journey.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:54Project origin Twente Philips
3. 5:39Profitability issues market study
4. 8:50Chaotic development wasted time
5. 10:57Lack of user feedback
6. 12:21Failure and giving up
7. 15:49Ideal strategy if redone
8. 17:56Learning from failure
9. 19:40New entrepreneurial project

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