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Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Consumers
Critical
Maintaining
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When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Firsts
Google
Ranking
Fluctuate
Wildly
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On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Apps
Data
Mapping
Reviews
Messaging
Review
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Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Mobile
Sleep
Transition
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Demand
People
Wanted
People Know Something
Generating
Something People
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You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Experimentation
Awhile
Blows
Stumble
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You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Inspiration
Nimble
Open Minded
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Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Apps
Data
Mobile Phones
Nice
Phones
Spot
Local
Review
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There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Dollars
Pay
Succeed
Businesses
Dollar
Succeeding
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The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Entrepreneur
Ideas
Moments
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Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Symphony
Focusing
Misses
Opinions
Page
Review
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Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Needs
Pain
Passionate
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As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Entrepreneur
Fantasy
Forbes
Month
Column
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The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Conspiracy
People
Theory
People Find More
Biggest Thing
More And More
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I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Grandiose
Mergers
Established
Mission
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I don't feel necessarily it's winner-take-all across the globe, where there has to be one local guide for the entire world. We'll certainly do as many of these markets as we can.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Entire World
Guide
Local
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In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Fun
Thinking
Writing
Concept
Nascent
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Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Decision
Dependent
Starting
Turns
Adapt
Bets
Success Is
Copy Quote
I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Incentives
Successful
Thinking
Consumer
Incentive
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Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Empowered
Recourse
Tools
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One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Advertising
Amazon
Buying
Challenges
Do You Know
Moving
Local
Copy Quote
Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Online
Pages
Transition
Yellow
Local
Searching
Copy Quote
About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Technology
Crisis
Existential
Marketplace
New Technology
Two
Vigilant
Years
Copy Quote
If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Dry
Islands
Spread
Video
Viral
Writing
Content
Cleaner
Island
Review
Unto
Wildly
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Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Closing
Take Care
Algorithm
Box
Connect
Letting
Review
Understands
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Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Breathe
Critical
Gaming
Local Business
Maintaining
Way
Businesses
Connect
Consumer
Effective
Local
Only One Thing
Prevent
Wanting
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I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Legal
Tinkering
Bell
Initially
Packard
Screwed
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I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Constructive
Feedback
Savvy
Adjust
Integrate
Paying
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In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Opportunity
Application
Fortunate
Iphone
Resources
Would Be
Good Opportunity Enough
Bet
Confirmed
Opened
Pretty Good
Store
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There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Cat
Games
Probing
Reputation
Team
Time Game Better
Identify
Mouse
Recommend
Time People
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When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Communicate
Fifteen
Good Sense
Reviews
Businesses
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Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Accountability
Hands
Upset
Copy Quote
There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Anger
Accountability
Business Owners
Owners
Powerlessness
Upset
Brings
Consumer
Counts
Important Thing
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There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.
Jeremy Stoppelman / Executive
Complaints
Justified
New Technology
Proven
Resistance
Tradition
Written Word
Years Ago
Rise
Useful
Destroy
Fears
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Incredibly
Introduced
Oral
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