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On Groupon

Good analysis of what’s going wrong over there. Fits nicely with what I wrote in October of last year. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

04. June 2011 by Shlok Vaidya
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Facebook Group Deals

What would be more exciting than just an internal GroupOn clone that Facebook is currently exploring, would be dynamically generating these offers. Here’s how it could work: Users talk about a particular product – a place, a thing, a service … Continue reading

14. March 2011 by Shlok Vaidya
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On Daily Deals

Instead of lending rise to an ecosystem, GroupOn gave birth to a litter of niche-babies. The difference? The babies will eat your market share instead of sharing (finite amount of daily deals to be had). A platform play could have … Continue reading

13. October 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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