Groupon

KINGOFSHORTS · Jun 3, 2011

Quote from emg:

This is the Generation Y era. Social Media mania. The bubble begins.

The Generation X had their mania which was dot.com

The baby boomer had their mania which was the Saving and Loan bubble during the 80s

Let the generation Y enjoy their boom. Eventually will bust

PS

u will notice that majority of groupon workers are generation Y. That is no different than the dot.com era where majority of the workers were Generation X

Dont forget the Post war generation, they had their GoGo stock bubble. (ie Litton,tecmo ling vought, ie: the conglomerates, and stocks that had the words "tronics" somewhere in the name.

ElectricSavant · Jun 3, 2011

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Quote from S2007S:

A lot of copy cat sites like groupon, doesnt take much to mimic this model, they are rushing to the market now because they know the hype is almost done with, after the zynga and facebook ipo there is no hype left so they are trying to get in while the money is still hot, thats what happens when you have easy money policies and stimulus money floating around the economy for 2-3 years.

forsalenyc · Jun 3, 2011

Quote from ElectricSavant:

Here are some daily emailers:

1SaleAday
CrowdSavings
LivingSocial
GiveAwayofTheDay
WeeklyPlus
Yolo
Zowzee

dot com bubble is coming back....

gnode · Jun 4, 2011

Yeah it can be copied. But look at sites like TZOO. They can/are copied but the stock sure has done well.

iprph90 · Jun 5, 2011

the chicago tribune has an article today about groupon:

charman eric lefkofsky's stock in groupon is worth almost $6.5 billion, which would put him ahead of sam zell and the pritzgers as the wealthiest chicagoan.

I believe his original investment was $1 million. most estimates put valuations of groupon ipo at $ 20-30 billion.

loufah · Jun 5, 2011

2010 revenue was $713M, gross profit was $280M of that, but net loss was $389M. What did they spend $670M on?

gnode · Jun 5, 2011

Quote from loufah:

2010 revenue was $713M, gross profit was $280M of that, but net loss was $389M. What did they spend $670M on?

Yeah this looks like pump and dump.

S2007S · Jun 6, 2011

Quote from ElectricSavant:

Here are some daily emailers:

1SaleAday
CrowdSavings
LivingSocial
GiveAwayofTheDay
WeeklyPlus
Yolo
Zowzee

And its only going to grow taking market share away from groupon!

mokwit · Jun 6, 2011

10 years or thereabouts is the time needed to grow a fresh crop of suckers large enough for a real bubble.

gnode · Jun 6, 2011

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/06/does-mason-want-to-get-out-of-groupon/

Pump and dump