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It was a little more than two years ago that we first met Anna Cho of La Maison Bleue Cafe. Her fledgling cafe was just getting off the ground with a line of tea-based, organic and naturally sweetened drinks…

The conversation with the gentleman next to me started innocently enough when he asked about the Border Collie on my phone’s lock screen. Of course, the stranger would have no way of knowing that I had put down my dog just two weeks earlier, so I did my best to let him down gently…

For better or for worse, Yelp helps a lot of consumers make more informed decisions on everything from dentists to dinner reservations. Crowd-sourced opinions from users (and ads from businesses looking for an extra leg up) have turned Yelp into a billion-dollar business…