Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowleyis an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1976
CountryUnited States of America
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Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.
use needs remember
One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
notebook writing stuff
I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
strong team thinking
Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.
use apps starting
What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use
over-you helping reaching
I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that youre in over your head.
sketching building
Stop sketching and start building.
people problem great-things
Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
cheek conference easter facebook hands kissed literally meet regular run seems social three twitter
Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.
amazing buddies home life nights pass
My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.
believed bosses companies industry older people ran resistance stuff until work
I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.
anywhere billion latitude minutes people
People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.
check continue deals interested offer smarter time type
Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
calling number people share stuff time
I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.