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After reading this article and some of the comments, Yelp reminds me of the Stephen Kaufer/TripAdvisor chapter in Founders at Work. TripAdvisor was acquired by
by callmeed 17y ago
After reading this article and some of the comments, Yelp reminds me of the Stephen Kaufer/TripAdvisor chapter in Founders at Work.
TripAdvisor was acquired by IAC/Expedia, which made perfect sense seeing as they were pushing so many users over to travel sites for booking.
I'm just trying to see if there's a similar fit for Yelp. Maybe something like OpenTable, although they don't have a huge market share. I don't know ...
- smhinsey 17y agoI doubt they have the money, although there's an outside chance one of them could scrape it up, but it strikes me as a fairly perfect fit for any big newspaper, such as the NYT or the Washington Post, who actually has a somewhat similar (good, but it's no Yelp) local product.