Selling $1 bills for 99 cents
During the first Internet bubble, many dot.com companies were spending their funds on advertising in the hope to quickly inflate the number of their users and, hence, their company value. It was called...
View ArticleIs Groupon’s valuation justifiable?
Not really. Local deals’ leader Groupon is currently valued at $15 to $20 billion for an estimated $1 billion 12 month revenue and LivingSocial at nearly $3 billion for half that. A lot of people are...
View ArticleBubble or Trouble?
Are we experiencing a second Internet bubble? The answer is clearly: yes. When group buying, flash sales and straightforward B2C sites like Groupon, Ideeli and Lot18 raise money by the 100’s or 10’s of...
View ArticleGroupon bashing unleashed
Only two weeks ago, local-deal start-up Groupon was acclaimed as an unprecedented eCommerce success and its IPO was as hotly anticipated as Facebook‘s. Since then, however, Groupon’s S1-Filing...
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