Groupon could IPO for as much as $25 Billion

You just don't get it, man. This the new world of social media, the rules are different! Groupon will do to coupons what Webvan did to groceries!

I can definitively state that that Groupon could IPO for as much as $150 Trillion.

This seems to be an absurd number that they are throwing out there. Perhaps it is a psychology tactic to get people to accept a $15B IPO. I'm not sure how Groupon can maintain this value as more and more people are beginning to associate anything with Groupon as cheap. Take for instance the deal they offered on Wednesday for the new Matthew McConaughey movie, once people saw the offer they immediately assumed that the movie was horrible.

Good opportunity to short sell the stock?

This prompted me to sign-up for Groupon for the first time today.<p>I laughed because it appears to be like Bits Du Jour (<a href="http://www.bitsdujour.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitsdujour.com/</a>) for everything - not just shareware deals. Bits Du Jour has been around for a LONG time - wonder why they never decided to do this for everything, not just software.

It is with equal trepidation and excitement that I look forward to the IPO of Facebook and Groupon. Following LinkedIn is also going to be interesting.

Hopefully they'll figure out how to tell the difference between San Francisco and South Bay before they IPO.