Tag: "Dennis Crowley"
Foursquare Statistics – December 2011
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO has just released some interesting statistics about their geo-location mobile app. Stats include: 4 million check-ins per day 30 million venues world-wide 600,000 merchants using the business tools/ offers products 170,000,000 (170 million) API calls per day You can watch the full interview with Tech Blogger Robert Scoble at […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare Founders walk away with $4.6 million from VC funding
In the second round of Venture Capitalist funding, Foursquare Co-Founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai have walked away with $4.6 million USD jointly from the $20 million given. Foursquare has said the founders sold shares so that investors could buy more. This allowed the Venture Capitalist to reach their desired equity level in the company. […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare secures $20 million in VC funding
Foursquare has completed their second round of Venture Capitalist funding – securing $20 million mainly from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. There has been speculation that Facebook or Yahoo was going to purchase funding but this latest move puts that issue to rest. Foursquare now employs 27 people and is close to reaching 1.8 million users […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley a grown up Justin Bieber?
Is it just me, or does Dennis Crowley look like a grown up Justin Bieber? Maybe their hair looks similar. Does anyone if Dennis does a ‘cute’ hair flick like Justin? I think there is some sort of resemblance going on 🙂 What do you think? Do you even care? 😮
Read More | ShareFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley disses Google
Dennis Crowley the CEO and Co-Founder of mobile Geo-location start-up Foursquare has been known as an outspoken tech enthusiast. Dennis sold his last start-up, Dodgeball, a mobile check-in service similar to Google. The product sat inside Google’s den but not much was made of it, not doubt not getting the full amount of attention Dennis […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing at 15,000 users per day
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has commented that the service is generating 15,000 new users per day now. This is quiet an achievement for Foursquare, who have stuck a deal with Starbucks in the US. If you become a mayor of your local Starbucks you get a $1 discount on selected beverages such as a frappachino. […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower […]
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