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Inc.
February 1, 2010
Max Chafkin |
You've Been Yelped Yelp, the rambunctious and burgeoning customer-review website, can make or break a small business. It can also drive a business owner slightly insane.   |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2010
Burrows & Galante |
Yelp: Advertise or Else? The site faces a lawsuit -- and a barrage of criticism -- for mingling ads and reviews. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FTC Subpoena Revelations, Thousands Of Complaints Send Yelp's Stock Price Tumbling A steady stream of business owners have gone on record, including in the Los Angeles Times, claiming that Yelp threatened to display negative reviews more prominently if they didn't pay for advertising. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010 |
Who Needs an IPO? With private investments like these, who needs an IPO? |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Cry for Yelp TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to snap up Web 2.0 darling Yelp.com, in a deal worth $500 million or more. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Yelp Elects Its First Chairwoman Diane Irvine, who has been on Yelp's board since 2011, is filling the spot left by the departure of PayPal cofounder Max Levchin, who resigned in July following an underwhelming second-quarter earnings report. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Brad Stone |
Silicon Valley Cashes Out Selling Private Shares SecondMarket and its ilk allow investors and employees -- including Facebook's -- to convert pre-IPO shares into millions. But is it healthy for startups? |
InternetNews
August 19, 2010 |
Facebook Places Takes On Location Services The move puts the social networking giant into competition with a slew of startups while potentially paving the way for an array of new features. |
Fast Company
December 2008
Anya Kamenetz |
The Perils and Promise of the Reputation Economy It's not easy doing business in the reputation economy. |
Search Engine Watch
March 9, 2011
Greg Habermann |
On Yelp and Google: Shaky Friends, Uncertain Futures Are you too reliant on any one source for your traffic or leads in local search? What search marketers can learn from the Yelp-Google kerfuffle. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Update Small business owners have claimed that soon after they got negative reviews on Yelp, a sales rep from the site would call and offer to eliminate the one-star ratings. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
An IPO You Can Sink Your Teeth Into Yelp is gearing up to go public next year. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011
David Sax |
Yelp's Online Reviewing Mafia The $500 million website Yelp grows on the strength -- and grumpy volume -- of its Elite food critics. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
Facebook Moves In On Yelp's Turf With Discovery Site For Local Services Facebook is quietly testing a new site to help you find highly rated businesses in your area. |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Heather Clancy |
Get Them Talking Tired of trying to round up new customers on your own? Go online and start yelping for referrals. |
Inc.
June 2009
Kasey Wehrum |
How Businesses Can Respond to Criticism on Yelp Yelp, the online review service, recently announced that business owners will be able to publicly answer negative posts. Three business owners give their views on when it makes sense to respond to critics posting negative reviews. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Go Public Now, Yelp Research predicts that total U.S. spending on mobile ads will rise from $790 million last year to more than $4 billion by 2015. |
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010
Urstadt & Levy |
Elevation Partners: The Ups and Downs of Private Equity With Bono on board, Roger McNamee's firm was the first celebrity private equity outfit. Now the founders are struggling to prove their model makes sense. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2009
Tim Beyers |
This Is When I'll Buy OpenTable A site for booking social events isn't very social. Go figure. OpenTable has zero Web 2.0 partnerships. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 28, 2013
Kim Girard |
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews Over time, Yelp's reader rating system of restaurants can make or break an operation, but professor Michael Luca shows the program has flaws. Can a more accurate, fairer system be created? |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 24, 2011
Michael Blanding |
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines and studies the problem of reputation-building in online marketplaces. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Elena Bergeron |
Is it Time To Go Analog? Can online websites try to creatively promote their content in print? |
Search Engine Watch
July 9, 2010
Michael Boland |
Who's Winning the Geo-social Game? In addition to consumer appeal and massive scale, the winner in the local geo-social mobile game will have direct touch points with SMBs or be able to build or partner to get them. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
How One Brutal Online Review Wrecked A Couple's Credit WNYC's New Tech City aired a fascinating show this week that takes a close look at some of the ways navigating the Wild West of online reviews can land both the reviewer and reviewee in hot water. |
The Motley Fool
December 24, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Week's 5 Dumbest Stock Moves Five dumb news stories from last week: Take-Two talks down its guidance... Yelp walks away from Google buyout offer... Steak n Shake's 1-for-20 reverse stock split... Yahoo! prepares to shut down MyBlogLog... Microsoft denied appeal in court... |
