I'm an eye on GroupOn them because it most likely will be introducing the hottest IPO of the year. Society is currently at the stage of the hyper growth such as described in the WSJ; the year over year growth is just simply amazing as our society born in late 2008-continues to amaze.
$760 M is a jaw dropping figure, I'd like to know if the $760 M represents the gross amount of the sold coupons, or group on a receipt: since they keep only half-life of trafficking in the coupon. Could be said of this story. But even if it is gross income, growth of $33 M $380 M in a year is amazing.
Daily deals site GroupOn Inc. because revenues surge to $ 760 million last year to $ 33 million the previous year, with more than one third of its sales from outside the United States 2010, according to a note internal. The email from Mason, Andrew Groupon CEO members of staff at the beginning of January, also reveals big ambitions of the founder of the company, which began three years ago. Mr. Mason writes he hopes to achieve "the billion of revenue in 2011." GroupOn is one of the few companies of the Internet, including of Facebook Inc., Twitter and LinkedIn Corp., who took lament for private placements or an IPO investors. Rush has fuelled an outbreak of the assessments of these private companies.The Chicago-based company spurned a takeover bid of 6 billion Google Inc. in December and then to collect 950 million in funding from investors private at the beginning of this year. He is preparing for an initial public offering later this year that could raise $ 1 billion said people familiar with the matter.Regroup on had more than 4,000 employees and extended its activities to 565 cities at the end of 2010, up to approximately 120 employees and 30 cities in 2009, according to the memo. Some growth was driven by the acquisition of rivals in Europe and Asia. Overseas activity represented about 285 million in revenues last year and nearly three-quarters of its employees. Mr. Mason said his staff to beware of complacency, warning that "hit" clones and tech companies big commit resources to withdraw from the market share of Groupon. "If you feel a bit like Frodo climbing Mount Doom, you cannot be held responsible for," he wrote, a reference to the protagonist of the rings. "The company is mainly known for offering coupons to local merchants, online is also generate sales of national retailers. In accordance with the memorandum, "national deals" accounted for 12% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2010. GroupOn has now 51 million subscribers to the email, it sends to promote deals and hopes to increase this triple, to $ 150 million, at the end of this year. The company also hopes to generate more revenues than does ' t rely on this explosion of email. The memorandum, Mr. Mason wrote that he hoped, "at least 1 billion dollars in revenue from new products we will launch in 2011, not just the current daily e-mail."
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