Brad Dwyer, 22, launched his entrepreneurial career around a Facebook game he put together while procrastinating instead of studying for a test at Iowa State University in 2008.
"It was just something that I programmed over a weekend and put out there to see what kind of reception it would get," Dwyer said.
The game, called Hatchlings, is similar in concept to the "Where's Waldo?" book series from his childhood, but allow users to seek out eggs of several varieties (think Easter eggs of various colors and designs) that would be hidden in their friends' Facebook profiles.
"The first day it was out there, it organically grew to several hundred users and started an exponential growth curve," Dwyer said. "So at that point I thought, 'Wow, maybe this is a bigger idea than I thought,' so I started working on adding new features and keeping it going."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Entrepreneur Spotlight: Career hatched as undergrad | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
Author: Geoff Wood
