Yelp
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | ? |
| Founded | ? |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
Key people | Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-founder & CEO, Russel Simmons, Co-founder & CTO |
| Products | Ad space |
| Revenue | approx. ? annually |
Number of employees | approx. 20 |
| Website | www.yelp.com |
Yelp is an internet company based in San Francisco, CA. Yelp hosts a website database of reviews, mainly of restaurants but also of medical services, automotive services, cultural venues, professional services, etc. Yelp's success derives from merging social networking with local reviews.
Yelp's features include:
- personal messaging
- "First to Review" tags
- Compliments
- Talk boards
- User-created lists
Yelp's founders formerly worked at PayPal.
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Articles
- Red Herring: Yelp Gets $3M-Plus in VC Cash
- The Register: Yelp! A viral recommendation system you can't resist?