Dennis Crowley Quotes
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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
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Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.
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People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
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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.
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I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.
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Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.
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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.
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Stop sketching and start building.
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I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.
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Stop sketching. Start building.
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I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
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Do what you love and the rest will come.
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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.
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Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
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Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.
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I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
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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.
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Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
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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.
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