Re:LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now W...
by ap22213 on Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:49AM
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Well, they have a hip looking office space near the Whitehouse, in downtown DC.
Re:LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now W...
by fleitz on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:04AM
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I guess they bought a lot of ads.
Re:LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now W...
by mpeg on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:10AM
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and not very well apparently, I managed to get a 70% discount on their listed price for something by using their referral system (refer 3 people and get yours free) plus targeted advertising
Re:LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now W...
by snogglethorpe on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:40AM
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What seems sort of a shame is that at least at one point, their actual software seemed pretty nice ... I used their facebooks apps for a while and I enjoyed them.
There were also plenty of bugs and "issues", etc, however, and after a while it became clear they were overwhelmed or something, and things just kept getting worse. The feeling that I was putting lots of personal data into a database that seemed likely to implode at some point was obviously a big turnoff, and I lost interest.
But if they had been on top of things, it might have turned into something pretty cool (I guess you can say that about most startups though!)...
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livingsocial