Groupon graces the cover of Forbes this month
Chicago’s very own Groupon hits the cover of Forbes this month. At less than 2 years old, and an estimated $500 million in revenue in 2010 (and profitable), it’s plain awesome to see an incredible business with an incredible business model get this type of attention.
Jimmy Chan
on 12 Aug 10Couldn’t agree more JF. Simple idea with strong execution. Incredible.
Tony
on 12 Aug 10The perfect business model for the web. An actual way to make money using social networking. Kudos to them!
Scott
on 12 Aug 10Kudos to Groupon. It’s a good idea that is novel and easy to explain to advertisers. Groupon certainly makes money.
The question is, do their clients profit? Advertisers make additional revenue from the deals, but as the story mentions with the discounts they barely break even. And once I’ve experienced the activity, am I likely to go back? Especially since I now need to pay twice what I did last time?
David
on 12 Aug 10Interestingly enough, Scott, a local business I frequent just put up a sign saying they were no longer honoring Groupon coupons due to “frequent customer abuse” and apologized that a few bad apples were forcing them to make that call.
While an anecdote is not data, it does make me question how the deal works out for clients.
Anonymous Coward
on 12 Aug 10Good one.
Dude
on 12 Aug 10So tired of them inflating their revenue because they take all the money first before handing 50% off to the merchant. With a 50% cut groupon is on target to do 250MM which is still amazing and more amazing that they’ll pay out that much to merchants. But 500MM in revenue would make them a 2.5 Billion dollar company not the 1+ billion dollar company that they are. Sure the inflation is nice for getting press but its slightly misleading
James
on 12 Aug 10It will be interesting to see how Groupon fares with aggregators like http://www.dailydibs.com and thedealmap.com and others popping up. Lots of deals to be had.
Tim Jahn
on 13 Aug 10So glad to see the success of Andrew and his team. I’ve been a big fan of the concept since the beginning and their continued success is exciting!
Dubai Real Estate Property
on 17 Aug 10Thanks for always being the source that explains things instead of just putting an unjustified answer out there. I loved this post.
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