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
people want done
People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
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
bored sketching dodgeball
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
special maps dots
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
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.
years eight used
I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.
together execution enough
I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.
ideas people passionate
Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.
ideas tvs social
I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
business entrepreneur want
If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.
asking bar barcelona cool dinner eat home knows last nearest phone recommend sushi time
Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.
seems spent time understand
If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.
what-you-love
Do what you love and the rest will come.