startupstella

thanks :)

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Agreed. I think there are many, many great reasons to announce news on TechCrunch. This post was merely meant to provide folks with a data point regarding how much traffic one site experienced from different types of announcements on TC.

It depends on how the merchant treats a Groupon customer. They may make up for the customer acquisition cost by offering less (hurtful to them) discounts in the future. Take this spa for example, they did a follow up for Groupon customers offering the same 50% deal, but this time they kept Groupon's share:

http://feefighters.com/blog/who-groupon-benefits-the-contrac...

the funny thing is that initially, we (feefighters) didn't plan this to be an investigation. we just kept hearing stories from our customers about how credit card processors would rip them off, they would complain to the bbb, and nothing would happen. finally, we decided to take a stand.

could you elaborate on this? what is successful and what have you learned about ad content?

Unfortunately, they haven't made the talks public just yet. Maybe soon? Check out the exceleratelabs.com site to see when they are up.

I dont think that is an essential "bubble" element. What was interesting to me about these presentations was how innovative, fresh, and simple they were. It was like they didn't care to stick to paradigms expected by investors in the audience...hockey stick graphs etc.

it's a whole other argument to say that certain majors guarantee success...

http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/may2010/bs20100...

very true. the funny thing is that americans have no problem taking food they haven't finished from restaurants "to go." in russia, this is seen as a faux pas...you don't have food at home you can eat?

amen. what i like about this article so much is how real it is...the writing is raw, honest, and speaks to you

do you think Ann Arbor has more of a scene than Detroit?

Are people forgetting that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East? The US enjoys a very healthy military relationship with Israel because of its advanced technology and its strategic location....all religion aside.

in a follow up post, i'm going to write about how i chose to work with feefighters.

I actually talked to at least 10 other startups before selecting FeeFighters. I totally agree with you, but I think there are ways to hedge the risk of a startup failing. in my situation, i joined a startup with founders who were serial entrepreneurs. both are technical, and both are brilliant. anyway, look for a follow up post :)

it's always interesting to see non-Russians comment on this kind of news. for Russians well aware of rampant corruption in post-Soviet countries, it's more of an eye roll than anything else. Russia is infamously corrupt as a result of the legacy of Soviet mentalities that made free market enterprise inherently black market. until the justice system is cleaned up and held accountable, russian will remain a corrupt 3rd world country unable to compete in the global business rena.

yikes! sorry about that. did you get it in your email just now?

You can use the sliding values on the calculator. Were you not able to do so?