This week, we had a chance to hear from the founder of the popular app Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, when he came to speak to a group of entrepreneurs at NYU.

In this edition of the 5 Minute Pick Me Up, you’ll get the inside story of how Dennis came up with the original idea of a location-based check-in app back in 1999 when smart phones didn’t even exist, how he ended up selling that concept that he called Dodgeball to Google in 2005, and how he was able to start the concept all over again under the name of Foursquare in 2009 to grow it to tens of millions of users.

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