Foursquare founder summary Entrepreneurial experience: Start early

Foursquare founder Dennis Crolly (Dennis Crowley) Beijing time November 30 morning News, American social location website Foursquare founder Dennis Crolly (Dennis Crowley)　　Recently through the question and answer website Quora Netizen's Questions, has carried on the summary to the pioneering experience. Quora is a question-and-answer website co-founded by Adam De Antiero Adam D ' Angelo and Charlie Csevo (Charlie Cheever), a former Facebook employee. One of the biggest advantages of the site is that anyone can ask outstanding venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and other internet celebrities, and often get answers soon. For example, a user at the weekend asked the founder of the social networking site Foursquare, Crowley, about the five business proposals, and Crowley replied to the question, one of them: "Don't let anyone tell you that your idea doesn't work." Crowley talked about his experience as Dogeball co-founder and Vindigo. Dogeball is also a geo-positioning service, which was later acquired by Google, but when Google launched the latitude, it shut down the service; Vindigo tried to launch a geo-location service for Palm Pilot, but the GPS-equipped consumer device was not available. The experience, he says, has also sparked his fourth recommendation: "Don't let lack of technology become an obstacle." Crowley said: "If you want to develop a product, but do not have this technology, it is the closest way to achieve." Vindigo is a city guide service that is released when a GPS or network connection is not present-they simply compress all the data and then summarize it, and let the user report where they are. "However, Crowley should have added that coming early may not necessarily ensure success."　　Vindigo was acquired by a Japanese company in 2004 (the founder of the future Foursquare was laid off and moved to New Hampshire as a ski coach) and eventually closed in 2008. Crowley also shared the following in the Quora: Don't plan, hurry up. Before dodgeball, Crowley said, he "spent three or four years thinking, I will meet some good engineers to help me achieve all the ideas," but since then, he decided to learn to program, and his own attempt.　　He said that only a prototype product could "attract other people/investors to participate". Don't let anyone tell you that your idea won't work. Crowley admits that he had been confused for years before he realized this, but he finally realized: "The way I look at the world is likely to be different than those who think I'm excited about things that don't work." "If you're passionate about an idea,, "then find a way to do it so that you can prove to yourself that it does not work." "Start early, be frequent." With Dogeball, Crowley said he and another co-founder "are offering imperfect products several times a week." What worries us more is how to get users to get products as quickly as possible, rather than making sure they are perfect or really workable.　　"He is still pursuing this practice. Finally, he says, startups should "hire the best people". In addition, Crowley responded to criticism and Facebook's challenges. No matter what happens, he says, don't be distracted: "If your product finally starts to take off, go ahead and hang in there." Don't be distracted by the voices of criticism or by copying your big business. We've had a lot of ideas, and this one is probably the best we've ever done and can be extended to millions of of users. Focusing on what is being done is the best way to succeed, and being distracted by all sorts of distractions doesn't help. "The total number of Foursquare users has recently exceeded 4 million, with a milestone of less than 2 months away from 3 million users, although a new survey by Pew, a US market research agency, found that most netizens did not use geolocation services. Can Foursquare open up this huge and untapped market? Maybe someone should ask on the Quora. (PEI)