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They tried, they just weren't successful.
by zackbloom 8y ago
They tried, they just weren't successful.
- personlurking 8y agoHere's a TC piece on "Yelp Deals": https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/yelp-deals-mobile-groupon/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/yelp-deals-mobile-groupon/ I also learned the current Yelp is the pivot, as per Wikipedia, via Fortune [1]. > One day Stoppelman was looking for a doctor but had no clue how to find a good one. That gave him and Simmons an idea for a convoluted automated system in which people could e-mail friends asking for recommendations on, say, local doctors, and the answers would be logged at a communal site for everyone to see. Levchin floated the duo $1 million to build out the plan. It went nowhere. But the co-founders noticed an interesting tendency among the early users. People were writing unsolicited reviews of their favorite businesses just for fun. So Yelp switched tack. "I remember the moment that Russ said, 'There should be a way for you to write your own reviews without asking questions,'" Stoppelman recalls. 1 - http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134489/index.htm http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...