Tag Archives: Dennis Crowley

About 694 days ago Apps | Blogging and Social Media | Internet and Online Business | Location-based services

Foursquare Raises Additional $50M

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A new round of venture financing has netted location-sharing app builder Foursquare an additional $50 million, putting the company’s current valuation around $600 million. The fund raising, in the works since March, was supported by original investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures, as well as others such as Spark Capital. Foursquare CEO and one of the founders of the company, Dennis Crowley, says that the money will be used for expanding its employee roster, particularly overseas as the company is “seeing huge international pick-up.” READ MORE »

About 720 days ago Blogging and Social Media

Social Media Conferences to Check Out

Now that the summer is upon us there are so great social media events I wanted to mention. There are few things more valuable than attending a great conference. I have made such incredible contacts by attending conferences and have learned so much. If you really want to know about what is going on in social media, I highly recommend you start attending as many of these events as you can. Here are three of my favorites: READ MORE »

About 756 days ago Internet and Online Business

Management Lessons From Google

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Ex-Googlers are known for creating  internet start-ups. Former Googler Dennis Crowley sold Dodgeball to Google and then started Foursquare. Evan Williams sold his company Blogger to Google and co-founded Twitter. Popular photo sharing application Instagram is brought to you by former Google employee Kevin Systrom. READ MORE »