50 Quotes by Jeremy Stoppelman

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.

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.

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.

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.

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.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It’s basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Choose something you are passionate about – or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed.