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Yelp.com is a social networking service that provides location look-up and reviews through user generated information. Yelp has seen rapid growth over the past several years as investors have poured millions into the site and it’s long term vision. The popular online service continues to grow with 2010 expected to be its best year yet! For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Jeremy Stoppelman in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. More »
Gowalla is a location-based social networking service where users can track friends, check-in to places, and get rewarded for exploring the locations around them. If you’re familiar with 
Kayak.com is a meta travel search engine style website that provides the user with the best possible travel deals available online at a given time. The travel site has since gone onto become a household name similar to Google or Facebook. It’s not surprise though at such a complex startup would require the assistance of additional fellow entrepreneurs. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Paul English in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Spotify is a peer to peer music streaming service that has seen significant growth in the past few years. Not only does Spotify offer online services, but the service can be used through your mobile phone and desktop as well. In an age when services like Pandora and Groove Shark continue to rise in popularity, it’s no surprise to see additional competitors stepping out into this growing market filled with hopeful entrepreneurs. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Daniel Ek in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Pandora Radio is a online music service that provides recommendations automatically to the user of similar music based on their previous selections. The popular music service has grown significantly since its launch years ago and recently has seen huge growth from the mobile market space it has begun to penetrate. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Tim Westergren in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Yammer is a microblogging service offered for business use, which provides companies with a twitter style of keeping in touch throughout the company. Businesses looking for a quick way to update fellow employees with what different people are working on at any given time will be happy to hear about this new startup launched in 2008. The entrepreneur behind Yammer has already seen much success with their subscription based service model. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur David Sacks in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Foursquare is a location-based social networking site designed with the mobile platform in mind. With the rapid growth expected to happen in the mobile space over the next five to ten years, it’s so surprise that startups like this one continue to pop-up. Being able to launch a startup that takes into account industry trends such as this one is one of the main reasons this entrepreneur continues to find success. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Dennis Crowley in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Bebo.com is a popular social networking service similar to Facebook that launched back in 2005. It has since grow increasingly popular quickly climbing the charts to one of the most popular websites on the internet. While Facebook tends to shadow the social networking space these days, it’s important to point out the success other entrepreneurs like this one have had within social networking. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Michael Birch in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Tumblr is a short-hand blogging platform designed for quick and simple blog posting. While the blogging space already offers many strong players such as WordPress and Blogger, Tumblr took the basic idea of those sites and transformed it into a new simpler form of blogging all the while providing the user with many new features. Similar to how Facebook was able to improve upon Myspace, this entrepreneur was able to do the same with his new blogging service, which continues to attract millions of users. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur David Karp in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
Google is the largest internet search company. What is now a common household name commonly replacing the term search, Google has grown rapidly over the past several years expanding far beyond the initial realms of searching to areas such as phone and television. While many know about Google and what it has to offer a user, most don’t know about the entrepreneur behind the now famous company. For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Larry Page in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. 
