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Yelp Evades Fire but Isn’t Bulletproof
- neonate 8y agohttps://outline.com/C7BuY4 https://outline.com/C7BuY4
- eyeareque 8y agoThank you. Paywalls shouldn’t be on the front page.
- btown 8y agohttps://outline.com/gevTtU https://outline.com/gevTtU - January 22 article linked in the OP with context of SQN Investors' call for a board overhaul, alleging mismanagement. It's so intriguing how much power a 4% stockholder can have over a public corporation. But I guess that other investors likely don't want to step up to be an activist if someone else with even more exposure is willing to do so, and they'll happily vote alongside the activist who's ideally made themselves closer to the problem, and (those investors would hope) wouldn't have the baggage and misalignment that a founding team might.
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- rokhayakebe 8y agoYelp should be DoorDash. Yelp should let you buy services directly from the platform. Yelp should be Groupon. Yelp should be Medium for small businesses.
- jitl 8y agoYelp bought food delivery service Eat24 for $134 million in 2015 and integrated it. They sold Eat24 to GrubHub in 2017 for $287 million and swapped for a GrubHub integration/partnership. As of 2018, DoorDash was still struggling to turn a profit.
- basch 8y agoSquareSpace for restaurants. All menus in a common data format. They could also get into the physical menu printing business, as a service to entice restaurants. "Update once, reflect change everywhere." They should consolidate the some of the loyalty programs, no one wants 55 loyalty apps.