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Wow, LivingSocial has now been funded to the tune of $918 million, and really, what is there to show for it? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livingsocial htt

• fleitz 14y ago
  I guess they bought a lot of ads.
  • mpeg 14y ago
    and not very well apparently, I managed to get a 70% discount on their listed price for something by using their referral system (refer 3 people and get yours free) plus targeted advertising
• snogglethorpe 14y ago
  What seems sort of a shame is that at least at one point, their actual software seemed pretty nice ... I used their facebooks apps for a while and I enjoyed them. There were also plenty of bugs and "issues", etc, however, and after a while it became clear they were overwhelmed or something, and things just kept getting worse. The feeling that I was putting lots of personal data into a database that seemed likely to implode at some point was obviously a big turnoff, and I lost interest. But if they had been on top of things, it might have turned into something pretty cool (I guess you can say that about most startups though!)...
• ap22213 14y ago
  Well, they have a hip looking office space near the Whitehouse, in downtown DC.