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Groupon could IPO for as much as $25 Billion
- jprobert 16y agoThis 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.
- wtn 16y agoThe best part thing about Groupon is the video they show you when you unsubscribe. It is actually quite funny.
- marcrosoft 16y agoGood opportunity to short sell the stock?
- shareme 16y agoahem try short-selling private equity..its a market that does not exist..cannot do it until stock sold to public
- marcrosoft 16y agoI meant after the IPO is done. :)
- steveplace 16y agoIt's very difficult to short sell a stock right after its ipo. 30 days after the ipo many more shares are available. Whether or not the stock would be a short is up to you; however, I would take a look at how other "overvalued" names have done recently -- CRM, NFLX, and OPEN come to mind.
- Pooter 16y agoFortunately, we're not in another tech bubble, or this would be ridiculous.
- dpcan 16y agoThis prompted me to sign-up for Groupon for the first time today. I laughed because it appears to be like Bits Du Jour (http://www.bitsdujour.com/ http://www.bitsdujour.com/) 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.
- jprobert 16y agoI unsubscribed from all daily deal sites including LivingSocial and BuyWithMe. I couldn't stand the daily barrage of emails that I received for products and services that were far less than intriguing.
- LilValleyBigEgo 16y agoIt's shotgun marketing. If you try to sell a crappy product to enough people someone will buy it.
- _delirium 16y agoBits Du Jour seems a little more like a software-specific precursor to something like woot (http://www.woot.com/ http://www.woot.com/), with a daily discounted product to buy. Groupon's difference seems to be selling discounted coupons to physical businesses, sort of a mash-up of woot and restaurant.com.
- klausgsec 16y agoYou 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!
- kmfrk 16y agoIt 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.
- zipstudio 16y agoI can definitively state that that Groupon could IPO for as much as $150 Trillion.
- alexqgb 16y agoDude, that's absurdly optimistic. I wouldn't bet a dollar over $127 trillion.
- LilValleyBigEgo 16y agoHopefully they'll figure out how to tell the difference between San Francisco and South Bay before they IPO.