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Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Matthew Ho — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:17:58 -0000

it does encourage me to try new services, restaurants and goods because of the lower price point. Some of the prices are ridiculously cheap! For example, I saw that jumponit had paintball for $1. I think to myself there must be some catch! Do they give you a limited number of bullets e.g. 100, and you need to buy more?

Dealies looks pretty good. On face value, seems similar to Allthedeals.com.au.

I think the whole group buying deal space is really crowded now - from what I can see there are over 15 different group buying websites. All competing for the same deals and customers.

Good luck with dealies!

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Caitlin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:41:19 -0000

You are so right Matt - all group buying websites DO look alike, they are more or less clones of one another. I didn'T like group buying at first, in part because of the reasons you stated about it how it can damage businesses, but I came around to it when I realized it just exposed me to new businesses, to which I was in turn pretty faithful - my gym for instance. I have begun to work for a site which groups all the deals onto one website, and not just because it is my company, I find it astronomically easier.
Caitlin
Dealies Australia

Re: Is Spotify Profitable?

Matthew Ho — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:53:48 -0000

that has a 2009 profit figure, I heard 2010 was a good year for Spotify. they expanded quite a fair bit in 2010 in terms of users. i haven't crunched the numbers for $1BN valuation, but that does seem high.

Re: Is Spotify Profitable?

c0uP — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:48:46 -0000

On a related note, you see this Guardian post yesterday on Spotify being swept up in the dotcom bubble with a $1B evaluation?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech...

Re: Interview with Dave Cunningham, OurExplorer

Andy — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:00:58 -0000

Great insights Matthew.

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Abeona Cart — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:33:46 -0000

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Re: Link Love – 23 November 2010

Pon Kattera — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:21:54 -0000

Cheers mate! I love exploring new places so I'm happy to go anywhere. I'd love better social discovery algorithms for finding new travel destinations (especially if that is based on information I already share publicly through third party services like Foursquare).

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Daisy N — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:49:32 -0000

Hi Matt,

OfferMe is another popular group buy. Check it out @www.offerme.com.au

Cheers

Re: China and the internets

kc — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:30:51 -0000

taobao aye. interesting

Re: Que es Quora?

Amanda Li — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:45:11 -0000

What I really like about Quora is its interface design, especially how it updates in real time to keep users on the site (New answer to this question; xxx starts to follow you; xxx voted up your answer, etc.). Although the format is similar to Yahoo Answers, the community is more like a grown up Reddit.

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Alexei — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:14:26 -0000

Hey Matt,

We've set up an aggregator to track all these sites and a few more!

Check it out at .. allthedeals.com.au

Would love any feedback

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

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Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Jason Richard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:34:30 -0000

Check out http://crowdmass.com.au

They've been up for a while .. their design looks pretty different to the others.

Re: Thoughts on Group Buying Sites

Jason Richard — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:32:43 -0000

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