The partnership also addresses one of Foursquare's most pressing challenges, which is to build loyalty and convince users to check in wherever they go.

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You build us up, tear us down, keep us in check, and tip us with some seriously good stuff.

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The idea was to check whether the animals would rather build a nest in the cooler cage or move to the warmer one, possibly tugging nesting material along with them strand by strand.

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Encourage transparent feedback: One of the best ways to keep an organization and its leaders in check is to always encourage regular transparent feedback and build a culture where everyone has a voice, and more importantly feels compelled to use it.

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In that sense, instead of building its own payments service Facebook could also partner with another payments provider and build out the loyalty piece, perhaps as a new version of the Check-in Deals.

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In a talk that was at times nostalgic, Crowley showed how Foursquare had evolved over the last 4 years from an app that looked to gamify check-in into a location layer that could allow the company to build predictive searches.

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Prior to Skillshare, Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at check-in service provider Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook to build its Places tool.

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Toyota's decision in December to postpone indefinitely production of its Prius hybrid at a new factory in Mississippi ought to be a reality check for politicians who want to tell carmakers what they should build, but will probably not be.

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Build a portal that puts control in users' hands and then try to sell them ever more overlapping services when they check in online.

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