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Groupon Math: Data scraping to estimate revenue
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paulgb
on April 15, 2010
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Jitle
on April 15, 2010
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Way to at least attempt to seek the actual data instead of an "educated guessing" that is used all to often in revenue projections.
I think the 35% is a fair estimate, but believe it could actually be higher.
maukdaddy
on April 15, 2010
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35% cut for Groupon seems high. I would imagine their margin a lot lower than this.
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I think the 35% is a fair estimate, but believe it could actually be higher.