American - Businessman | June 19, 1976 -
We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.
Dennis Crowley
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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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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.
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The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.
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I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
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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.
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.
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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.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it's down to eight.
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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
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I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
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