Big news around these parts at the beginning of 2015 is that Mercedes Benz has decided to move its new U.S. headquarters to Atlanta. Which is a fine thing for Atlanta. Mercedes and Porsche. Two high class car companies with U.S. headquarters in a high class car driving city. The more interesting aspect of the […]
Continue reading →Paul Judge has put together a 67 slide presentation on the Atlanta startup scene that was originally published on Pando. Solid effort that gives anyone that wants to know what is happening in Atlanta around technology startups many good places to start.
Continue reading →Back in the day when deal sites were all the rage and Andrew Mason was still CEO of Groupon he would talk about "clones" all the time. Clones being competitors. It seemed he used the term in a derogatory manner that always struck me as odd. In every large fast growing market I have been in, […]
Continue reading →So after my somewhat gushing Groupon earnings call summary, here's the other side of the coin. One of the things that CEO Eric Lefkofsky said during the call, and it has become a major talking point since, is that Groupon wants to become the first place shoppers turn to when they "want to buy anything, anywhere, […]
Continue reading →On Wednesday Groupon (GRPN) announced their second quarter earnings. The stock market reacted quite favorably sending the stock up 22% in a single day. That is quite the dramatic recovery for a company with a pretty solid record of missteps with the financial community. This is why the stock is moving. Groupon named co-interim chief […]
Continue reading →Nice article about the latest nCrowd deal. We have purchased substantially all of the assets of Spreebird from Local Corporation. Local, a public company, had to file the transaction with the SEC if anyone wants to see the gory details. At one point the entire asset purchase agreement was up there but someone seems to have taken […]
Continue reading →So two of the largest advertising giants, Omnicom and Publicis are getting together to form a company with $23 billion in revenue to fight off the inroads from digital competition. Might be a losing battle, data based marketing is growing fast. But beyond that the deal is being billed as a "merger of equals" for […]
Continue reading →That post the other day about room to grow in the mobile coupon space. From the Groupon Q1 earnings call this is what it looks like today for them, one of the leaders in local couponing. Sales via mobile have risen to 45%. There's gold in them devices.
Continue reading →Interesting new “Cheapskates Online: How the 'New Normal' Takes Advantage of New Technology” report from eMarketer. I prefer savvy shoppers over cheapskates but names aside the report is interesting. I like this chart. While penetration is slowing there is still some growth in digital coupon use and that use is going mobile. There's room to […]
Continue reading →Not too long ago Wired ran an article on five Google products at risk. One of these at risk products was Google Offers. I think Wired was right. Google seems to be heading in another direction. That direction is Google Local. Google is moving to a retailer self-service model. Not really surprising. I never really thought […]
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