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Inc.
February 1, 2010
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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.   |
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. |
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
Peter Burrows |
Hot Tech Companies Like Yelp Are Bypassing IPOs In a desire to keep control, they're opting for private rather than public investment -- even, as in Yelp's case, in the case of rich bids from Google and Microsoft. |
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. |
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
November 2014
Austin Carr |
Unfinished Business: Max Levchin's Quest To Build the Next PayPal Building Affirm, which he launched in the spring of 2012, is not Levchin's first battle. The 39-year-old serial entrepreneur cofounded PayPal. Affirm's goal is to reimagine the idea of a bank from the ground up. |
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. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
With Affirm, PayPal Cofounder Has A New Way For You To Buy Things Without Credit Cards Max Levchin has a new option to add to the mix: on-the-fly credit loans with fewer fees and more customer transparency than traditional credit cards. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
December 2008
Anya Kamenetz |
The Perils and Promise of the Reputation Economy It's not easy doing business in the reputation economy. |
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. |
Inc.
February 1, 2010 |
Take a Deep Breath How to handle online criticism - on Yelp and elsewhere. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007 |
Apps Mania At 32, Max Levchin may feel like the granddaddy of Web 2.0, but four of the applications his company has created for Facebook have consistently ranked in the top 10. |
Search Engine Watch
December 12, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation Consumer usage of ratings and reviews continues to grow, as well as their importance to everyday local business information. Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most effective ways to sell a product/service, and that's exactly what consumer reviews provide online. |
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. |
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? |
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? |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How to Cut Your Taxes by $15 Million Roth IRAs can give retirement savers the best of all worlds. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2009
Claire Stephanic |
Will Google and Yelp Finally Strike a Deal? A potential deal leaves open speculation about the companies' compatibility. |
