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BUSTED: Groupon And Living Social Caught Inflating Regular Prices To Make Deals Look Better
Groupon and LivingSocial succeed because consumers perceive them as great deals. But is that true? Perhaps not.
Earlier this week came reports that the daily-deals site, suddenly unpopular with both users and investors, is considering shelving its long-expected IPO.
More Bad News For Groupon: Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit | paidContent
Report: Groupon Is Rethinking Its IPO | paidContent
Groupon is “reevaluating its plans to go public in the face of stock market volatility” and has canceled its roadshow scheduled for next week, according to the Wall Street Journal .
Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors - GLG News
Augustine Fou, PhD, has over 16 years of digital strategy consulting experience and is an expert in metrics/analytics, social media marketing, and search marketing and SEO (search engine optimization). Dr. Fou was previously Group Chief Digital Officer at Omnicom's Healthcare...The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking online discount site Groupon some questions about its accounting procedures, the kind of questions that stretch out the SEC's review process for an initial public offering. According to CNBC , "[T]he SEC remains focused on at least two of the company’s favored accounting metrics, say people familiar with the matter: gross profits and consolidated segment operating income, or CSOI."
Groupon's accounting practices under SEC scrutiny | ITworld
Groupon Responds To IPO Backlash With A Cheeky Feline
Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’.
Editor’s note :This guest post was written by Rocky Agrawal , an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995.
Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
Groupon’s IPO Filing Reveals Incredible Growth And $2.6 Billion Revenue Run-Rate (Charts)
Groupon finally filed for its IPO today and now we can see it’s finances laid bare (click for full financial table). Groupon has been growing at an astounding rate. Last year, it’s revenues grew more than 22,000 percent to $713 million.Short logic (Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal)
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering.
The following is an in-depth analysis of Groupon’s business in one of its oldest markets, Boston, by the folks at daily deal aggregator Yipit. The entire piece is worth reading, but for the TL;DR crowd, here is the breakdown. Groupon’s costs to acquire customers is skyrocketing, while its revenue per customer is plummeting.
Groupon’s Business is Decaying in its Established Markets | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme | Groupon IPO| Knewton Blog
I would love to be wrong about this. Especially given the fallout in the tech economy if Groupon blows up. But isn’t it really pretty obvious that Groupon is a massive Ponzi scheme?December 6, 2010, 12:03 pm As you may have noticed, we’ve been writing about Groupon a lot lately. MP Mueller did a post on the experiences of a high-end restaurant in Austin, Tex., and offered some tips .