I think this line captures my sentiment:<p>"What’s likely to happen in the daily deals space, analysts have said, is that a handful of industry leaders will rise to the top, while smaller or niche efforts fade away."<p>There isn't room for a dozen of these companies. If the sector has long term profitability, it'll be Groupon, a hipper smaller competitor, and perhaps a niche player or two. Or perhaps niche players attached to bigger businesses. Look at search as an analogy. There's room for Google the gorilla, perhaps Yahoo and Bing, and Wolfram Alpha for the data nerds. Not much else is worth the investment.