Posts Tagged ‘ groupon ’

Brazil’s Peixe Urbano Takes “Significant Growth” Round From General Atlantic and Tiger Global

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Brazil’s Peixe Urbano Takes “Significant Growth” Round From General Atlantic and Tiger Global

Peixe Urbano , Brazil’s largest daily deal site (Groupon is a close second), has closed a “significant growth capital” investment from General Atlantic and Tiger Growth Management , the company tells me. The size of the round isn’t being disclosed, but these firms only tend to get involved when at least tens of...

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Groupon Acquires Indonesian Group Buying Site Disdus

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Groupon Acquires Indonesian Group Buying Site Disdus

Groupon has acquired yet another local group buying clone to expand its network of daily deal sites across the globe. The company has snapped up Indonesia’s Disdus , a portfolio company of venture capital firm East Ventures , reports say . A press release in Indonesian was translated by the folks over at...

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Heartsy Is Groupon For Etsy

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Heartsy Is Groupon For Etsy

From the why-didn’t-anyone-think-of-this-before department: meet Heartsy , which is basically a Groupon for Etsy , i.e. a daily deals site for handmade items sold on Etsy stores. The concept should be overly familiar to you: registered users get sent exclusive deals on handmade items sold on Etsy by email.

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Exclusive Data On Groupon’s U.S. Revenues And February Falloff

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Exclusive Data On Groupon’s U.S. Revenues And February Falloff

By most accounts, Groupon is growing like gangbusters. It’s taking market share around the world, hiring left and right, and priming for a $25 billion IPO . But how much of the group-buying site’s revenues are U.S. versus international and how is it doing in its home market, especially after its disastrous Super...

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Why Women Rule The Internet

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Why Women Rule The Internet

Editor’s note :  This guest post is written by Aileen Lee , Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously  worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley.  She was also founding CEO of KP-backed RMG Networks .  Full disclosure: some...

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