| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.12.2013 | Learning to code? EngineHere can connect you with devs in a virtual classroom | Want to learn to code? You’ll have plenty of options to choose from, with dozens of providers promising to teach you computer programming skills in no time.
But Benjamin Plesser, founder of EngineHere, believes he’s found the optimal “learn... |
| 22.03.2012 | Deal Sites Selling Deals On Deals Sites: Google Offers Discount on Design Discounter One Kings Lane | Betabeat received a very meta treat in our inbox this morning: a link to this Google Offers deal sent along by a tipster who appended the Kanye-esque hashtag #salesonsalesonsales. The Google deal apparently offers a 50 percent discount to b... |
| 09.03.2012 | Talent crunch: New York startups start offering $5,000 bonus to new hires | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With big dogs like Facebook and Twitter building ... |
| 08.02.2012 | IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund | Before big data was a hot investing theme, Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge. His NYC-based fund, IA Ventures, has backed companies such as Billguard... |
| 21.12.2011 | Daily deal site Dealfind launches 'Everyday Deals' | Once known as 'Canada's Groupon,' Dealfind makes headway in American markets
Daily deal up-and-comer Dealfind has made a series of expansions to their brand in 2011. The most recent of these is their "Everyday Deals" feature, whic... |
| 06.12.2011 | Google to add local deals to Google+ mobile check-ins (updated) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update: A Google spokesperson confirmed to Ventur... |
| 30.11.2011 | Why I'm doing ALL my holiday shopping online this year | In case you remain skeptical of the miracle of online shopping, here's why I love it
I’ve decided it’s time for a change. This year, I’m taking a stand. No more malls, big box stores, outlet centers, or after-shopping refueling stops at IHO... |
| 16.11.2011 | Yipit’s iPhone app cures deal fatigue with big data | Daily deals aggregator Yipit is today releasing its app on the iTunes App Store, bringing shoppers customized deals recommendations from more than 750 deals sites nationwide.
The free Yipit app will be location aware and will enable users t... |
| 16.11.2011 | Yipit’s iPhone app cures deal fatigue with big data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Daily deals aggregator Yipit is today releasing its app on the iTunes App Store, bringing shoppers customized deals recommendations fro... |
| 01.11.2011 | Groupon local sales slump is obscured by product expansion | Groupon’s core business of selling local deals slumped in the last quarter, but the decline has been masked by growth in new products, according to data collected by daily deal aggregator and researcher Yipit.
This information has been unea... |
| 24.10.2011 | Weak technology weighs down Groupon’s sinking ship | Groupon’s first technology product Groupon Now appears to be a stinking dud, according to data released on Sunday. The Groupon Now mobile app chalking up some very dour numbers, according to a new report compiled by Yipit, an industry perfo... |
| 24.10.2011 | Weak technology weighs down Groupon’s sinking ship | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Groupon’s first technology product Groupon Now ap... |
| 24.10.2011 | Tippr’s Martin Tobias: Groupon Clones Done, ‘Arms Dealer’ Approach Paying Off | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 10:45 am Pacific
After Groupon’s season of woe, a truckload of me-too disappearing acts, and last week’s mass-layoff meltdown at third-place competitor BuyWithMe, it s... |
| 20.10.2011 | Deals site BuyWithMe chokes on acquisitions, announces huge layoffs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily Deals site BuyWithMe, which gorged itself b... |
| 20.10.2011 | Deals site BuyWithMe chokes on acquisitions, announces huge layoffs | Daily Deals site BuyWithMe, which gorged itself buying smaller rivals, has laid off more than half its workforce, the company’s chief executive officer Jim Crowley announced yesterday. BuyWithMe was the No. 3 daily deals site in the U.S. be... |
| 20.10.2011 | Flailing daily deals site says it’s a victim of shrinking capital markets | Yesterday’s massive layoffs at daily deals site BuyWithMe were the result of shrinking capital markets, the company’s chief operating officer said today.
The announcement that BuyWithMe, the No. 3 daily deals site on the Web, was cutting si... |
| 07.10.2011 | Thanks To Whole Foods Deal, LivingSocial Grew Five Times Faster Than Groupon In September | LivingSocial is still less than half the size of Groupon in terms of gross revenue, but in September it grew five times as fast largely thanks to one deal: Whole Foods. According to new data from daily deal tracker Yipit, LivingSocial’s gro... |
| 20.09.2011 | Did Daily Deal Sites Jump the Shark? [Infographic] | It’s tough to be a startup in the daily deals space these days. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for daily deal startups. It’s not a pretty pictu... |
| 15.09.2011 | Groupon's IPO back on track for Oct/Nov? | Reports indicate Groupon is planning to go ahead with its IPO this fall
Groupon may be down, but it’s not out. After reports surfaced last week pointing to Groupon’s IPO hesitation in light of the recent market fluctuations, sources are now... |
| 11.09.2011 | Report: Groupon Grew Its Revenues 13% In August, Gained 2% Marketshare | In light of reports that the company was canceling its investor roadshow and postponing its IPO, daily deals aggregator Yipit has some positive information about Groupon’s trajectory in August, namely that it had a banner month revenue-wise... |
| 07.09.2011 | Google Offers Expands Daily Deals to Five More Cities | Google has announced that Google Offers, its daily deals product, will open in Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle today. The service launched – bearing Google’s ubiquitous beta label – in Portland, OR on June 1 and expanded to the Bay... |
| 25.08.2011 | Yipit’s Daily Deal Report: Industry Revenue Dips, Groupon Gains Share, And Travel Deals Take Off | Yipit, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users’ locations and interests (and raised $6 million back in June from a host of VCs), released some interesting trend data today on the daily deals space. Overall, July w... |
| 18.08.2011 | Can Groupon evolve as fast as the market it created? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every morning, somewhere between 4 and 6 a.m., my... |
| 18.08.2011 | Can Groupon evolve as fast as the market it created? | Every morning, somewhere between 4 and 6 a.m., my inbox is assaulted by daily deal emails. This morning I fought back, feeling a sense of accomplishment as I deleted my last offer: 50 percent off a Brazilian Wax. Sound familiar? Groupon, th... |
| 11.08.2011 | New Data From Groupon Confirms It’s Peaked in Older Markets | Bad news for group buying from local daily deal aggregator and number-cruncher Yipit. Following on some earlier analysis based on the start-up’s S-1 filing, the initial paperwork required for an IPO, Yipit finds that Groupon’s numbers are g... |
| 08.08.2011 | How a market downturn could change Groupon’s IPO | Like other upcoming public offerings, Groupon’s now has a big shadow hanging over it.
With the NASDAQ composite index down nearly seven percent for the day in response to the U.S. government’s credit score downgrade, most tech stocks have b... |
| 02.07.2011 | Is Groupon Bad For Small Businesses? | Editor’s note: The following post is a response to our guest series taking a critical look at the daily deals industry. It is written by Vinicius Vacanti, CEO of Yipit, a daily deal aggregator that collects deals from more than 300 daily de... |
| 29.06.2011 | LivingSocial deals minor blow to Groupon's market share | More bad news for Groupon, the group-coupon company heading for an IPO. Its share of the group-buying market declined in May, according to the latest report from Yipit, a site that aggregates deals from 482 sites.
Yipit’s report tracked 17,... |
| 29.06.2011 | LivingSocial deals minor blow to Groupon's market share | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
More bad news for Groupon, the group-coupon compa... |
| 23.06.2011 | Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Raises $6M Series B | - |
| 22.06.2011 | Yipit Raises $6 Million More to Aggregate Daily Deals | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
New York’s Yipit, an aggregator of daily deals, said it raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Highland Capital Partners, based in the Boston area. The news was ... |
| 21.06.2011 | Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Raises $6 Million Series B | Daily deals are growing like crazy, and it’s not just Groupon and LivingSocial. Daily deal aggregator Yipit just raised $6 million in a series B led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing investors RRE, DFJ Gotham and IA Ventures also parti... |
| 13.06.2011 | Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse | Editor’s note:This guest post is part of an in-depth series looking at the daily deal industry written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. Read Part I, Part II, and Part III also. He blogs at reDes... |
| 06.06.2011 | How does Groupon work? | Is the business model sustainable?
Groupon is the fastest growing company ever. From nothing to a stunning 7,000 employees and billions in revenue in just two years. Groupon just filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and revealed the f... |
| 03.06.2011 | Groupon’s Business is Decaying in its Established Markets | The following is an in-depth analysis of Groupon’s business in one of its oldest markets, Boston, by the folks at daily deal aggregator Yipit.
The entire piece is worth reading, but for the TL;DR crowd, here is the breakdown. Groupon’s cost... |
| 03.06.2011 | 5 Interesting Observations on the Groupon Model from Academic Research | The number of daily deal sites is growing at an amazing rate. Recent data from daily deal aggregator Yipit, shows there are now over 480. The number has grown by almost a factor of 10 over the last year (chart below).
Entrepreneurs definite... |
| 21.04.2011 | Google Rolls Out Groupon Competitor in New York | It really seems like the search giant is incapable of staying out of competition with any of the big players on the web. Today Google rolled out Offers, a new program that will let local merchants offer discounts and compete directly with c... |
| 14.04.2011 | Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local Industry A Source For News And Analysis | I’m beginning to think that the old phrase “think globally, act locally” has become an appropriate slogan for Web 2.0. (Or perhaps an alternative might be “think global, try to monetize the sh*t out of local”.) With the rise of location-bas... |
| 06.04.2011 | Yipit Cuts Through the Noise Of Daily Deals with Kayak-Like Filtering | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is another story of a New York City duo that left the finance industry to start a tech company, but didn’t quite know where to begin. (For our first take on this theme, r... |
| 25.03.2011 | Groupon's "Real" U.S. Revenue Numbers For February | Two days ago, I published the chart below with monthly estimates of Groupon’s U.S. revenues. The chart shows a startling 30 percent falloff in February from the month before. As I noted in the post:
Again, these are just estimates based on ... |
| 24.01.2011 | Co-working space General Assembly gives NYC startups a home | New York City’s tech ecosystem has been flourishing recently, with both rookies and alumni from local successes like Foursquare, Etsy and Gilt Groupe starting companies. Co-working space General Assembly (GA) is looking to become the centra... |
| 11.01.2011 | NYC Turing Fellows Program imports elite tech students | Many in New York City’s startup ecosystem have lamented the lack of technical talent. To address this problem, a group of New York City investors and entrepreneurs are looking to lure elite technical talent from universities across North Am... |
| 07.01.2011 | LivingSocial cuts off daily deal aggregators | Are sites like Yipit becoming too popular for LivingSocial's comfort?
LivingSocial isn’t feeling so social today. As of Friday, the company is cutting off all daily deal aggregators from its affiliate program, which means that LivingSocial ... |
| 20.12.2010 | Groupon clone of the day: The Big Deal | Angie's List offers steep discounts for members and non-members alike on home and other services
Monday’s Groupon clone of the day is brought to you by Angie’s List, with its social shopping feature, The Big Deal. Like other collective buyi... |
| 18.12.2010 | Groupon clone of the day: Yipit | Yipit actually aggregates deals from Groupon clones to offer local and nationwide deals
Today’s Groupon clone is Yipit, which is less of a Groupon clone in itself than an aggregator of Groupon clones. The site collects and displays deals fr... |
| 03.12.2010 | Big data draws big money as IA Ventures raises $50M fund | Roger Ehrenberg, a former Wall Street investor, launched IA Ventures earlier this year to invest in startups that leverage “big data”. Now that big data is attracting big cash from limited partners as the fund has raised $50M, Dan Primack o... |
| 19.11.2010 | Group Deal Platform NimbleCommerce Is Ready For Its Closeup | Given the massive success of Groupon (and the huge number of clones out there), it’s no surprise that existing publishers and businesses are keen to take advantage of the craze themselves. Some of them have turned to white-label deal servic... |
| 17.11.2010 | Yipit Nation Rolls Up National Daily Deals | First came the local daily deal sites: Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe. There were so many it was hard to keep up. Then came the daily deal aggregators like Yipit and 8coupons. Even Yahoo is starting to aggregate daily deals. Then the dail... |
| 17.11.2010 | Yipit launches Yipit Nation | The new feature displays nationwide deals in a wide range of different categories
Yipit just upped the ante on social shopping. On Wednesday, the group-deal site unveiled its newest feature: Yipit Nation. The feature aggregates the many nat... |
| 16.10.2010 | Deals Aggregator DailyD Raises $5 Million | Group buying aggregator DailyD has closed a $5 million round of what looks like Series A funding according to a Form D SEC filing and reports on LA Tech blog Socal Tech and Yipit.
DailyD is was started by LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin an... |
| 07.10.2010 | Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Confirms $1.3 Million Round Led By SV Angel, Others | Between sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, and countless clones, at any given moment there’s bound to be a few great deals going on in your neck of the woods. Unfortunately if you want to capitalize on as many of them as possible, you’re goi... |
| 08.09.2010 | Need Niche Network Group Buying Deals? Meet ChompOn | TCDisrupt finalist ChompOn officially launches its major product foray into the deals space with its platform for publishers going live today. Attempting to take on the saturated deals aggregation space among competitors Yipit and 8coupons,... |
| 26.07.2010 | Yelp Gears Up To Take On Groupon, Starts Testing Local Deals | It looks like Yelp is looking to cash in on the local deal craze. As the folks over at deal aggregator YipIt first noticed, Yelp has recently been testing time-limited local deals in a select number of pilot cities.
The proof lies in a comm... |
| 28.06.2010 | How Groupon’s rivals are trying to catch up on social buying | The tide of group buying sites, which mix discounting with viral marketing to make marketing offers more effective, isn’t abating anytime soon. Yipit, a New York-based startup that aggregates deals from about 90 different social buying comp... |
| 07.04.2010 | Groupon Clones Pop Up Like Mushrooms In The United States, Too | Websites offering deals on a daily basis are popping up all over the place. In Russia, the strategy is apparently to copy the entire website design and business model of one of the most promising companies in this space, Groupon, while in G... |
| 11.03.2010 | LivingSocial raises $25M for group buying, Facebook apps | Hardly a week goes by where we don’t receive a company pitch from a hopeful startup trying to crash the group deals scene. And it’s for good reason, since venture capital firms seem happy to throw cash at well-executed takes on the business... |
| 15.02.2010 | 8coupons And Yipit Are One-Stop Shops For Groupon-Like Daily Deals | If you’re a frequent TechCrunch reader, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with Groupon, a rapidly growing startup that offers steep discounts on local goods and services. It’s a great idea: the deals are only activated once a certain nu... |
| 16.11.2009 | Foursquare Lets Others Play With Its API | Up until now, Foursquare, the hot location-based service, has only let a handful of developers play around with its API. Starting today, the company is formally unveiling it, hoping that a robust app community will form around their data.
H... |
| 27.10.2009 | HashCeratops Aims To Formally Add Place Tagging To The Twitter Stream | Twitter is on the verge of rolling out its Geolocation API (actually, it’s already partially rolled out). That feature should be a boon to location-based services which can now send their location information back to Twitter and vice versa.... |
| 17.03.2009 | UnHub Offers A Simple Way To Showcase The Online You | I’ll say it right off the bat: there’s a plethora of ways to bundle all your online identities (i.e. your social networking profiles) and share all of them using only one URL, so I know the one I’m going to introduce isn’t unique any way yo... |
| 26.01.2009 | 140it: Condense Ur Text For Twitter When It Won't All Fit | While Internet slang and abbreviations have become second nature for some technophiles, many of us have trouble converting our words into the pseudo-gibberish sometimes required to make long messages fit into the 140 character limit set by ... |
| - | A questão do co-fundador técnico: lições de um empreendedor que botou a mão na massa | Este artigo foi escrito por Roberto Riccio para publicação no Startupi. Foto meramente ilustrativa.
Milhares de pessoas têm ideias de startups e acabam desistindo (ou pior, lançando um produto de baixa qualidade) por não terem um sócio que ... |
| - | A questão do co-fundador técnico: lições de um empreendedor que botou a mão na massa | Este artigo foi escrito por Roberto Riccio para publicação no Startupi. Foto meramente ilustrativa.
Milhares de pessoas têm ideias de startups e acabam desistindo (ou pior, lançando um produto de baixa qualidade) por não terem um sócio que ... |
