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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by jessedhillon on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:00PM (#2617952)
> I disagree.

Based on nostalgic feelings about the 2000s?

Warren Buffet and his daughter wrote a whole book on how to go over a company's P&L statements line-by-line and determine whether or not it's a value. Groupon fails that test. That quote is about buying companies that are doing better than the market thinks they are -- and his methodology is a way to find and prove those cases on paper. Not with hunches.

Can you back this sentiment up with anything more than vague comparisons to Google?

Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by aresant on Friday June 03, 2011 @10:55PM (#2618764)
If you're actually asking:

"Groupon is no Google today, but they do have a visionary founder, an incredible brand, insane revenue growth, and address a real problem for merchants and consumers."

or see my comments here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618080

and here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613546