It's a big week for nCrowd. It was move week and we are settling into our new Atlanta Tech Village office. But the bigger news is that we are announcing an acquisition. All Things D broke the news this morning that nCrowd has purchased the assets of Tippr out of Seattle. It is the largest […]
Continue reading →One of the top five classes I have ever taken was a shortened version of a negotiation course during a Mergers and Acquisitions executive education program at The Wharton School. The class was led by Stuart Diamond. It was darn good. It has been over ten years since I have taken that class. But there is […]
Continue reading →Interesting report from Privco. No big surprises here. The Valley, New York, and Boston lead the way. Seems like they missed the Vitrue/Oracle deal as the largest in Atlanta in 2012.
Continue reading →Over the past two months I’ve been working pretty hard on a big deal. Not your daily deal kinda deal. Something a little bigger than that. We announced it yesterday morning. Half Off Depot is joining forces with CrowdSavings. It is a union that has been a long time in the making. Seems to me […]
Continue reading →My friends over at Mail Chimp have updated their email stats. They titled the piece "Get out of the Daily Deals business and into the Priesthood." Snarky folks. We’ve updated the stats by industry and stats by business size pages, and some really interesting facts bubbled up. For example, daily deals have the lowest average campaign open rate at […]
Continue reading →Lots of acquisition activity in the Atlanta startup world recently. Vitrue purchased by Oracle for a reported $300 million (too low). BLiNQ Media bought by Gannett for a reported $90 million (too high). Pardot gobbled up by Exact Target for what seems to be an accurately reported $95 million (about right). Nice wins for all. Three nice […]
Continue reading →Yesterday Groupon shares tumbled more than 10%. The stock is down 67% since the beginning of the year and 74% since its IPO last year. On top of this performance there are a mass of stories that question if offering a deal is good for small businesses. Mostly anecdotal stories such as Wafflegate. The end […]
Continue reading →This week was pretty exciting at Half Off Depot. Google announced that they were expanding their Offers program to include more cities and more deal partners. Half Off became one of 30 Google Offer partners. We have long considered ourselves to be a top ten participant in the online deal market so this in some way […]
Continue reading →One of the things we try to do at Half Off Depot is make our deals work for local businesses so that they will come back and do deals with us again and again. Sometimes this concept is a bit hard to explain. The folks over at The Dealmix put together a nice infographic on […]
Continue reading →I get the question every week, perhaps at least once a day. "What do you think of the Groupon IPO? That's good for you guys, right?" To which I reply a hearty "maybe." For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about Groupon, the biggest competitor to Half Off Depot where […]
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