Felix Salmon's recent write up: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/the-groupon-roadshow/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/the-gro

Felix Salmon's recent write up: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/the-groupon-roadshow/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/the-groupon... Overall, then, I think it’s pretty clear that people who think Groupon’s some kind of Ponzi scheme are wrong. There’s a real business here, with a real business model. The big question is whether Groupon can execute... If I had to make a forecast, I’d say that Groupon is going to be around for the foreseeable future, but that the error bars ... are enormous. It could just slow down ... [or] become that thing everybody wants to be these days, a platform.