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
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.
people want done
People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
sketching building
Stop sketching and start building.
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.
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
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.
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.
people
Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.
building easy company
Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.