Yelp
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| Yelp, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | October 2004 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
| Key people | Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-founder/CEO and Russel Simmons, Co-founder/CTO |
| Industry | Business ratings and reviews |
| Products | Yelp.com |
| Employees | approx. 20[citation needed] |
| Slogan | Real People. Real Reviews. |
| Website | www.yelp.com |
Yelp is an internet company based in San Francisco, CA. Yelp hosts a website database of user reviews, mainly of restaurants and stores, but also of medical providers, automotive services, cultural venues, professional services, other websites, and the like. Humorous entries for subjects as diverse as ex-boyfriends, beer, squirrels, sleepwalking, and tater tots can also be found. Yelp's success derives from merging social networking with local reviews. Yelp also hosts "elite" events at nightclubs and bars in San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Chicago.
Yelp's founders, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, formerly worked at PayPal. Yelp was incubated by Max Levchin. It received $6 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and Levchin. It received an additional $10 million from Benchmark Capital in its second round funding.[1]
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[edit] Geographic scope
Yelp accepts reviews of any business or service in the United States, but currently is focused in:
- San Francisco, CA — offers neighborhood filtering
- Boston, MA — offers neighborhood filtering
- Chicago, IL — offers neighborhood filtering
- New York, NY — offers neighborhood filtering
- Philadelphia, PA
- Washington, D.C.
- Seattle, WA — offers neighborhood filtering
- Los Angeles, CA — offers neighborhood filtering
- San Jose, CA
[edit] Features
Yelp's features include:
- personal messaging
- "First to Review" tags
- "Useful," "Funny," and "Cool" tags for reviews
- Compliments
- Talk boards
- User-created lists
- Lists of "friends"
- Map search / Google Maps mashup - "Map-tastic!"
- Palm optimized sub-site for mobile phone browsing at m.yelp.com
[edit] References
[edit] External links
[edit] General
[edit] Articles
- Red Herring: Yelp Gets $3M-Plus in VC Cash
- Forbes: Yelp: Not Your Mother's Local Review Site
- The Register: Yelp! A viral recommendation system you can't resist?
- Businessweek: Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs
- San Francisco Chronicle: CASTING THE NET / Yelp is on the way
- San Francisco Chronicle: Amateur reviews changing approach of small businesses
