Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon. Now we're starting to see some froth in the "peer-to-peer accommodation" market.
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Venture capitalists, corporations, private-equity firms, and more poured billions into private companies this year--a huge boon for titans like Facebook and Groupon. Here, the best of the rest starting 2012 with supersize bankrolls.READ»
Instead of destroying small businesses with unsustainable deals, The Mutual donates its membership fees and then gives you perks at area businesses for being such a generous person.READ»
The "Groupon for Moms" just scooped up $20 million in funding. It's not your father’s deal company. Instead, this startup is figuring out how to use technology to drive business for local merchants. READ»
The startup Womply recently brought us Groupon-like "effortless offers." Today it launches Loyalty Cloud, hoping to slice through the messy customer-loyalty market with the "simplest loyalty program ever for local merchants."READ»
Daily deals dashboard Frugalo launched this week, providing a central hub for shoppers to consolidate their deal hunting and reduce the barrage of notifications they receive from all of the sites.READ»
In part two of our interview with him, the LinkedIn cofounder talks about how big data is going to give Groupon a competitive advantage in the deals space, why he wrote a book called "The Start-Up of You," and why he's only checked the LinkedIn stock price a handful of times since the company went public in May.READ»
It's going to be a wild ride on Friday when Groupon launches into the public markets. Here are three things to keep in mind as you watch the price race up and down.READ»
You've created your dream company. It's humming along. Then someone offers you $100 million for it. Could you turn it down? What about $1 billion? These entrepreneurs did.READ»
With plenty of cash on hand, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo doesn't feel the need to IPO anytime soon. But how does he plan to generate more ad revenue from the increasingly popular social media network? READ»
A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores.READ»
When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole. But the main lesson is simple: The deals business is harder than it looks. And that’s good news for Groupon.READ»
