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May 8
2009

DotMenu CEO Frank Blot: Converting College Diners into Lifetime Customers

Acquiring customers at an early age and getting them to use your services or products through their various life stages has been an appealing strategy for everything from autos to cigarettes to newspapers. Can it apply to online food ordering when it starts from a college dorm? DotMenu Inc. CEO Frank Blot thinks it can. …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Mobile, Shopping/Transactions

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Jan 30
2009

OpenTable Files for $40 Million Public Offering

OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, has filed an S1 with the SEC to raise $40 million. The company, founded in 1998 by former Citysearch President Thomas Layton, was launched as easyseats.com. It currently has contracts with 10,000 restaurants in all 50 states, or approximately 1/3 of U.S. reservation restaurants. It seats roughly 2.8 million …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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Aug 10
2008

Allmenus.com Moves Up the Value Chain

Online menus are a good thing, and a number of companies, mostly regionally oriented, have tried to aggregate them and sell advertising and delivery services around them. I am a big user of MenuShark in my area. At least two companies have especially ambitious plans. One is MenuPages.com, which was sold last month to New …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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