I'm absolutely unsurprised that the shares were sharply up on the open; IPOs over the past decade have mostly turned into government-sanctioned (or at least ignored) "pump-and-dump" operations. One of the things I've come to despite having moved to Silicon Valley is this absolutely infantile obsession with by-the-minute stock prices.
Congrats to Groupon on their successful IPO; I still have very strong doubts that they have any means of building a successful, sustainable business. Time will tell better than my attempts at fortune-telling.
Everything points that the stock will be trading in the teens in the near future. Their financials are a joke. Their costs to acquire users are astronomical (http://adage.com/article/digital/groupon-marketing-spending-...) and their accounting is shady at best.
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I'm absolutely unsurprised that the shares were sharply up on the open; IPOs over the past decade have mostly turned into government-sanctioned (or at least ignored) "pump-and-dump" operations. One of the things I've come to despite having moved to Silicon Valley is this absolutely infantile obsession with by-the-minute stock prices.
Congrats to Groupon on their successful IPO; I still have very strong doubts that they have any means of building a successful, sustainable business. Time will tell better than my attempts at fortune-telling.
Everything points that the stock will be trading in the teens in the near future. Their financials are a joke. Their costs to acquire users are astronomical (http://adage.com/article/digital/groupon-marketing-spending-...) and their accounting is shady at best.