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October 10, 2011 12:00 pm GMT
22-year-old British entrepreneur Rich Martell - who mirrored Mark Zuckerberg's experience in almost being sacked from his university for developing a flirting social network - is pivoting his company towards location-based offers. In fact, it's reminiscent of the Amen app launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, though more overtly geared towards monetization than Amen's more Twitter-like experience.Martell developed the FitFinder mobile social network for students, renamed Floxx, but has clearly realised that this is a narrow niche and is now working on Spottd, which received approval by Apple over the weekend and is now live on the App Store.
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Floxx Pivots Towards Location-Based Offers
22-year-old British entrepreneur Rich Martell - who mirrored Mark Zuckerberg's experience in almost being sacked from his university for developing a flirting social network - is pivoting his company towards location-based offers. In fact, it's reminiscent of the Amen app launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, though more overtly geared towards monetization than Amen's more Twitter-like experience.Martell developed the FitFinder mobile social network for students, renamed Floxx, but has clearly realised that this is a narrow niche and is now working on Spottd, which received approval by Apple over the weekend and is now live on the App Store. Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zq0-KugHPug/
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