Dennis Crowley Quotes

• 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.

  Dennis Crowley

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• Do what you love and the rest will come.

  Dennis Crowley

  What You Love

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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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  People, Done, Want

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• Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

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  Ideas, People

  "Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley's Top 6 Pieces Of Advice For Entrepreneurs" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

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  Building, Easy, Company

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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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  People, Problem, Great Things

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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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  Ideas, People, Passionate

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• Stop sketching. Start building.

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  Sketching, Building

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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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  Use, Starting, Apps

  "Why Foursquare should be on everyone's phone" by Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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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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  Strong, Team, Thinking

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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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  Bored, Sketching, Dodgeball

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• Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.

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  People

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• I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

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  Together, Execution, Enough

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• One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

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  Needs, Use, Remember

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• I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

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  Ideas, Tvs, Social

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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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  Over You, Helping, Reaching

  "INSTANT MBA: It's Always Better To Overcommunicate" by Lynne Guey, www.businessinsider.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

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  Eight, Years, Used

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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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  Special, Maps, Dots

  "Dennis Crowley Of Foursquare On Social Search, Platforms And Rivals". Interview with Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Stop sketching and start building.

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  Sketching, 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.

  Dennis Crowley

  Notebook, Writing, Pockets

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