Le business model de Groupon est-il viable ? Une class action contre Groupon pour tromperie de ses actionnaires ? Confidentiel : Groupon prépare le lancement d'une marketplace en France. Groupon Acquires FeeFighters, The BillShrink For Business Services. FeeFighters, a three-year old comparison shopping site for credit card processors, is announcing today it has been acquired by Groupon.
The Chicago-based startup, which provides businesses with a way to find the best merchant account provider for their needs, has also been offering businesses other tools such as its new payment gateway called Samurai. FeeFighters says that the acquisition will not impact any major changes to its product line, and that most of the team will be transitioned to Groupon. In a company blog post, FeeFighters CEO Sean Harper writes: Our goals have always been to help small businesses run more efficiently, and by teaming up with Groupon, a pioneer in local e-commerce, we are able to execute on that goal even better than we were as an independent company.
He notes that the Samurai gateway and the FeeFighters and Samurai brands will all continue on as before, post-acquisition. Assessing Groupon’s Innovation « HBS Managing Innovation Winter 2012 Course. Groupon’s success over the last two years and one half years has been nothing short of spectacular.
Forbes magazine projects the company to be the quickest in history to reach $1 billion in sales, and concept copiers have been sprouting up like weeds (See the New York Times post entitled “How Many Groupon Clones Does the World Need?” But for all its success, not everyone in enamored. When the company turned down Google’s $6 billion acquisition offer, many bloggers were astounded by both the perceived over-valuation of the company and Groupon’s audacity in turning down such a generous offer. In fact, less than two weeks ago, Fast Company blogger Francine Hardaway published a post entitled “Why Groupon and Its Clones Won’t Last ( As the title of her post suggests, it is safe to say that Ms. Hardaway does not consider Groupon to be the paradigm of innovation.
Groupon's Bottom-Line Might Be Deteriorating. How did Groupon achieve such a large user base so quickly. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Talks Growth, Clones, and why Groupon isn’t a Coupon Site. By just about any measure, Chicago based collective buying service Groupon is killing it.
Just 17 months after launch, they are in 50 cities. They have 3M subscribers and have sold 2.7M Groupons (deals). They have raised $30M in funding from Accel. Before taking funding, they were profitable in just six months, and they are projected to drive $100M in sales in 2010 (of which Groupon will take a whopping 30-50%).
And this doesn’t seem like a service that will struggle to break out of the early adopter ghetto. This is a model that can work in any city, in any country, and perhaps, in any vertical. Groupon CEO and founder Andrew Mason opened up a little bit about the company this morning at the Kelsey Marketplaces conference. Groupon spun out of a company called The Point – a platform for mobilizing group action. As 2007 came to a close, Groupon started to think about trying to actually make some money. By October, 2008, The Point had decided on a plan of attack.
Groupon : Pourquoi ça fonctionne ? Si vous ne connaissez pas encore Groupon , contraction de Groupe et Coupon, sachez qu’il s’agit d’un site américain qui permet à ses membres d’obtenir des réductions sur des produits et services en fonction de leur localité. Le site compte aujourd’hui plus de 13 millions de membres. Pourquoi en parle-t-ton ? Groupon Now!, Groupon’s Bet on the Future, Off To a Disappointing Start.
With Groupon’s IPO roadshow kicking off on Monday, Groupon executives will be spending the next two weeks busily pitching investors on the future prospects of their company. Groupon recognizes that with the growth of its core daily deals business (Groupon 1.0) already slowing , the company needs a new source of growth to justify its $10bn+ valuation – a Groupon 2.0. Slide from Groupon online roadshow via www.retailroadshow.com. Groupon acquiert Hyperpublic, une start-up de données locales. Hyperpublic bâtit des bases de données agrégeant des informations locales, en particulier des localisations et des deals quotidiens.
Groupon annonce avoir fait l'acquisition d'Hyperpublic, une start-up newyorkaise qui construit des bases de données d'informations locales - notamment des localisations et des deals quotidiens - et les met gratuitement à la disposition des développeurs. Le montant de la transaction n'a pas été dévoilé. Une partie des équipes de la société rejoindra celles de Groupon. Créée il y a deux ans, Hyperpublic a levé 1,15 million de dollars auprès de Lerer Ventures et Softbank Capital.
Groupon Privacy Issue: Does Groupon's New Policy Compromise Users? That's why consumers must ask the question: Does Groupon's new privacy policy compromise the company's valued users?
The answer is simple on the surface: Only if users don't mind having Groupon collect and share their relationship information, financial transaction information, personal habits information, and mobile location information. Otherwise, Groupon's 83 million users should be fine continuing to use the social daily coupon network's services in light of privacy policy changes. That move is understandable, since Groupon, the world's largest social daily coupon network, must generate profits from its service approaching an anticipated $1 billion IPO. The company has shown it can grow fast, but investors will also want to see that Groupon can make money, particularly since the social daily coupon network space is fast becoming more competitive. So what people spend and how they spend it with may now be collected and shared by Groupon. Sen. Groupon's Business Model Is Deteriorating In Its Oldest Markets.