How have merchants, who participated in a Groupon deal, reacted? I hear merchants are doing quite badly in Groupon deals and it's not what it's made out to be in terms of immediate and/or future revenue. Any data available?
Google was ready to offer 6 billion to groupon but couldn't muster 8 billion to buy something worthy like a cheap valued SUN?<p>Anyway, I guess Groupon is pushing to see how much they can get, I just wouldn't push it too far if I was them.
The headline cracked me up. "BREAKING: Groupon Aims to Increase Valuation, Not Have It Crash Miserably". The article itself is a decent roundup of what happened after several other large non-acquisitions
Groupon has 2 options, either grow steadily the way they are doing it right now OR find a new way to get visitors engaged for a long period of time rather then just looking at the deal and go away... both the options are challenging - for the first option competition is increasing in every local market ... therefore it would be interesting to see how they do it if they go for second option.