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Yelp

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Another company founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees.

Yelp is a local reviews website covering the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain; Yelp drew an audience of more than 50 million unique visitors in March 2011.

Yelpers have written more than 18 million local reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists.

Milestones

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  Yelp added Nikhil Nirmel as Senior Business Intelligence Analyst. (4/1/10)
  Posted 5/5/12 at 9:42pm
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  Yelp added Tim Robertson as Senior Engineer. (4/1/10)
  Posted 5/3/12 at 10:28pm
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  Yelp added Ken Struys as Web Developer. (2/14/11)
  Posted 3/13/12 at 11:11pm
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  Yelp added Jason Mueller as Product Manager. (2/1/11)
  Posted 3/9/12 at 3:44pm
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  Yelp added Kyle Killion as Product Manager.
  Posted 8/30/11 at 8:43am
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  Yelp added Jae Kwon as iOS Developer.
  Posted 8/27/11 at 8:48pm
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  Yelp added Rob Krolik as CFO.
  Posted 7/28/11 at 5:33pm
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  Yelp added Laurence Wilson as General Counsel.
  Posted 8/22/08 at 10:38am
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  Yelp added Geoff Donaker as COO.
  Posted 7/9/07 at 10:23pm
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  Yelp added Russel Simmons as Co-founder and CTO.
  Posted 7/9/07 at 10:22pm
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  Yelp added Jeremy Stoppelman as Co-founder and CEO.
  Posted 7/9/07 at 10:22pm
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  Went public with stock symbol NYSE:YELP. (3/2/12)
  Posted 3/2/12 at 6:19pm
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  Yelp received $25M in Series E funding. (1/27/10)
  Posted 1/29/10 at 7:06am via techcrunch.com
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  Yelp received $15M in Series D funding. (2/26/08)
  Posted 2/26/08 at 8:25pm via paidcontent.org
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  Yelp received $1M in Series A funding. (7/1/04)
  Posted 8/2/07 at 9:18pm
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  Yelp received $5M in Series B funding. (10/1/05)
  Posted 7/9/07 at 10:26pm

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Above: Yelp Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 5/9/09

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Sources

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3. venturebeat.com [edit]
4. User Reviews Site Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Yelp Launches in France (prnewswire.com) [edit]
Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards (lead411.com) [edit]
Yelp Now Drawing 50 Million Users A Month To Its 17 Million Reviews (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Yelp Now Has 20 Million Reviews Under Its Belt (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Yelp Files For IPO To Raise $100 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Reviews website Yelp sets IPO terms, seeking $93 million (renaissancecapital.com) [edit]