Last night we were lucky enough to be a part of TechCrunch’s inaugural Mini Meetup NYC. The drinks were flowing, the tunes were blasting and New York’s finest were out in full force. We were lucky enough to be sponsors of the great event which took place at Bar13 last night from 6-10.
Along with ourselves there were some other great companies sponsoring the event including Traducto, WhatRunsWhere, Parlor, MyGenie, Return on Change (RoC), PeoplePerHour, andTouchTunes Interactive Networks, and thanks to MyPizza.com there was more pizza than I have ever [...]
Ever since I met Brent Metz as a freshman in high school at TJHSST, I knew I wanted to build a company with him. In 2006, I convinced him to leave his position as a senior scientist at IBM to co-found Yext to build an intelligent call advertising engine to power local commerce. We built an amazing company, and along the way, saw a tangential opportunity in the local [...]
For local businesses, Yelp is an extremely effective channel for generating customers. People use Yelp online and on mobile devices to choose where to eat, where to shop and where to be entertained. Everyday, Yelp users are deciding which businesses to visit based on the information they gather from various Yelp pages, so it’s incredibly important that you take control of your Yelp page [...]
Yesterday a Google employee addressed a number of questions in the Google Places support forum regarding the verification of new listings and making updates to existing ones.
