By Bob LeDrew

How do you build the next big thing? And how much of being the next big thing is in your control?

These are the questions that have been rolling around in my head since I heard about Poutsch, a new website and iOS app that is designed to be an easy, attractive, and slightly gamified way of making – and sharing – public opinion surveys.

I remember the explosion of Twitter on the social media scene, and I also remember confidently telling people the same thing was going to happen with Foursquare. Well, I didn’t quite get that one right. And that’s when I started to reduce the number of predictions I made.

So I am NOT going to say that Poutsch is the next big thing, but it is an interesting enough utility that I got myself an interview with cofounder Felix Winckler. (more…)