Y Combinator adds five new partners to guide its startups towards success
Y Combinator welcomed five new partners to its elite cabal today and said goodbye to one.
Y Combinator welcomed five new partners to its elite cabal today and said goodbye to one.
Groupon co-chief executives Ted Leonsis and Eric Lefkofsky aren't racing to find the next CEO as the current executive team is "gelling."
Groupon's board of directors is looking outside the company's current management for candidates that could assume the now vacant position of CEO.
Guest Post As Groupon's most vocal critic, I wanted to take a look at what changes we might see and the state of the business today.
Andrew Mason said his time at Groupon was like getting to the Terra Tubes without dying.
Groupon reported its fourth quarter 2012 earnings today almost exactly where analysts had expected: with $638 million in revenue, up 30 percent over last year.
The problem was that analysts wanted a profit.
Groupon’s shares soared about 23 percent today on a sketchy rumor that Google was interested in buying it, according to a report.
What is Wall Street's beef with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason?
Guest Post After more than a year on the Groupon beat, I'm retiring. But I have one final question for Andrew Mason.
Guest Post In Groupon's earnings call yesterday, the daily deals site tried to put a positive spin on a lot of negative developments.
We reject the blogosphere’s new admonition to hot indie startups: “Don’t do a Digg.” In Kevin Rose’s defense, he is not the first founder to reject an inflated acquisition offer, only to see the company sell years later for a …
Groupon is being investigated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after the company’s stock made a sharp, upward turn Monday, before earnings beating expectations were delivered at the close of business that same day.
Finra, which watches for oddities within …
Still reeling from a disastrous fourth quarter, Groupon beat Wall Street’s expectations and reported $559.3 million in revenue and $39.6 million in operating income for the first quarter of 2012. Monday’s earnings report is Groupon’s second since opening on the …
After an accounting restatement, a shuffling of its board of directors and Groupon's stock falling to below 50 percent of its initial public offering price (and 66 percent off the high it reached on its first day of trading), Groupon CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter to shareholders yesterday to try to swing the momentum back in the company's favor.
After a rocky showing in its first earnings report, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed his grand ambitions for the company in a letter to stockholders today. It’s not just about daily deals anymore: Mason wants Groupon to become the “operating …
Executives at daily deals company Groupon are responsible for egregious corporate wrongdoing, a new suit alleges.
In a derivative complaint filed last Wednesday in Illinois, Groupon shareholder Theresa Monturano is suing the executives and board members for breach of fiduciary …
Groupon has revised its fourth quarter earnings report, admitting that revenue was actually $14.3 million less than originally indicated.
At the time of this story’s publication, Groupon’s shares were down nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading. The daily deals company …
There were a lot of doubters who said Groupon was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme looking to cash out with an IPO. Groupon just reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company, and did better than many on …
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is grumpy. Donning jeans, a white collared shirt and black blazer, and shucking the goofy boy demeanor he’s known for, Mason took the stage at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and candidly shot …
The government questioned Groupon CEO Andrew Mason for his potentially market-conditioning statements, according to documents released by the SEC today.
Soon after filing papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for Groupon’s initial public offering, Mason got wind of some …