INSIDE GROUPON: The Truth About The World’s Most Controversial Company
INSIDE GROUPON: The Truth About The World’s Most Controversial Company
Business Insider’s Deputy Editor Nicholas Carlson takes a hard hitting look at Groupon just days before their scheduled IPO. Packed with anecdotes from anonymous sources inside of the company, this story examines how Groupon went from the hottest tech startup and one of the fastest growing companies in the world through SEC inquires and decreasing employee morale to the doorstep of going public.
The SEC is asking questions. Industry executives are calling it a ponzi scheme. Early employees are demanding six-figure pay for 9 to 5 hours. One even filed a lawsuit. Merchant customers are screaming. And Andrew Mason and his board, having helped themselves to 0 million of cash that could have gone to the company, are are now being blasted for incompetence and greed.
What a turnabout from a few months earlier, when Groupon was the talk of Wall Street. Then, Groupon was one of the fastest-growing companies in history, spurning billion takeout offers from Google, preparing to go public at a valuation fo + billion. And now everyone was talking about it running out of cash!
So what happened? How did things go so wrong?
And now that Groupon is finally going public, how will the Groupon story end?
Our sources all asked to remain anonymous, either in deference to the SEC’s “quiet period” rules for companies that plan to go public or in order to remain in compliance with severance agreements with Groupon. Groupon itself declined to comment.Business Insider’s Deputy Editor Nicholas Carlson takes a hard hitting look at Groupon just days before their scheduled IPO. Packed with anecdotes from anonymous sources inside of the company, this story examines how Groupon went from the hottest tech startup and one of the fastest growing companies in the world through SEC inquires and decreasing employee morale to the doorstep of going public.
The SEC is asking questions. Industry executives are calling it a ponzi scheme. Early employees are demanding six-figure pay for 9 to 5 hours. One even filed a lawsuit. Merchant customers are screaming. And Andrew Mason and his board, having helped themselves to 0 million of cash that could have gone to the company, are are now being blasted for incompetence and greed.
What a turnabout from a few months earlier, when Groupon was the talk of Wall Street. Then, Groupon was one of the fastest-growing companies in history, spurning billion takeout offers from Google, preparing to go public at a valuation fo + billion. And now everyone was talking about it running out of cash!
So what happened? How did things go so wrong?
And now that Groupon is finally going public, how will the Groupon story end?
Our sources all asked to remain anonymous, either in deference to the SEC’s “quiet period” rules for companies that plan to go public or in order to remain in compliance with severance agreements with Groupon. Groupon itself declined to comment.
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One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading (Wiley Trading)
One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading (Wiley Trading)
- ISBN13: 9780470529409
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
An inside look at what it really takes to become a better trader
A proprietary trading firm consists of a group of professionals who trade the capital of the firm. Their income and livelihood is generated solely from their ability to take profits consistently out of the markets. The world of prop trading is mentally and emotionally challenging, but offers substantial rewards to the select few who can master this craft called trading.
In One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, author Mike Bellafiore shares the principles and techniques that have enabled him to navigate the most challenging of markets over the past twelve years. He explains how he has imparted those techniques to an elite desk of traders at the proprietary trading firm he co-founded. In doing so, he lifts the veil on the inner workings of his firm, shedding light on the challenges of prop trading and insight on why traders succeed or fail.
An important contribution to trading literature, the book will help all traders by:
- Emphasizing the development of skills that are critical to success, such as the fundamentals of One Good Trade, Reading the Tape, and finding Stocks In Play
- Outlining the factors that really make the difference between a consistently profitable trader and one who underperforms
- Sharing entertaining, hysterical, and page turning stories of traders who have excelled or failed and why, many trained by the author, with an essential trading principle wrapped inside
Becoming a better trader takes discipline, skill development, and statistically profitable trading strategies, and this book will show you how to develop all three.
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Scam Dogs and Mo-mo Mamas: Inside the Wild and Wooly World of Internet Stock Trading
Scam Dogs and Mo-mo Mamas: Inside the Wild and Wooly World of Internet Stock Trading
A burrito maker and bon vivant called Tokyo Joe A very big textile-coatings salesman named Big Dog A bankrupt heating contractor who styles himself as Georgia Bard Meet the new leaders of the twenty-first-century stock market-each an Internet stock-trading legend. Each a cyber-guru in the vanguard of the millions of trading and talking about stocks on the Internet. Each with legions of eager followers and determined foes, and the ability to make stock prices leap-or plummet-at the click of a mouse. Colorful, charismatic, and often outrageous, they are reshaping the way we invest and how Wall Street works. Scam Dogs and Mo-Mo Mamas is their story-the first journalistic look at these market wizards and their brave new world. Veteran Wall Street Journal reporter John Emshwiller has entered that world and brought back a lively, entertaining tale, documenting their rise, the culture they’ve created, their intertwined lives, and their power, influence and turf battles. Pitted against the cyber-gurus, and a major part of this story, are the self-appointed truthsayers who seek to expose their excesses, Web officials who try to keep order in cyberspace, and enforcement officials from the SEC, who are beginning a government crackdown. Though these Internet voyagers rarely meet or even share a spoken word, their lives and passions have all met in cyberspace. There, they befriend or battle each other in pursuit of fame and fortune. They operate in a realm without substance that can be powerfully, even frighteningly, real. There, it is as easy to be entertained as it is to be fleeced. Of course, if you are very good and very lucky, you might just strike it rich. Welcome to the wild and woolly world of Internet stock trading-where the rules are still being written, nothing is as it seems, and everything is up for grabs.
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Wheedle Stock Trading Game
- The game of stock taking and deal making.
- A stock trading, stock collecting, cardgame with very easy rules
- Playing time of about 30 minutes.
- 4-6 players
- Ages 9 to Adult
Wheedle 1.To persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile. 2. The game of stock taking and deal making. This game is a stock trading, stock collecting, cardgame with very easy rules. Make a deal today!
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