SigFig tracks over $315 billion in assets for everyday investors like you. We recently launched personalized, software-based asset management that anyone can afford for $10 per month, flat.
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Guessing a large portion of that funding go towards marketing. They've likely proven that their acquisition costs can scale profitably. They should grab customers before others come along with a similar offering.
We've surveyed over 1600 Groupon merchants, and 75% say they would like to use Groupon again. In general, it seems they are pretty satisfied.
We did a text analysis of over 150,000 words of open-ended responses:
* Fewer than 2% of all these merchants even mentioned "cash upfront" as a benefit of running a deal. Not a single one mentioned it as a primary benefit/drawback.
* A few merchants did in fact complain that Groupon sometimes held on to the cash a little TOO long before funding their accounts
* FYI, the top stated benefits were "New Customers" and "Advertising Effect".
Groupon is in no way perfect, but its characterization as a check casher is pretty silly. I'm sure if you hunt hard enough, you can find an unhappy Groupon merchant and put words in their mouth.
We're compiling a list of vendors to add. Is it possible to provide a list of companies that use MiraPost? I didn't see a "customers" page on your site. You can email jay at our domain
Thanks for the constructive criticism. We definitely want to flesh out the content, and accounting is a category that several folks have asked for (i.e., software, human accountants, etc).
Thanks for the feedback! We are trying to condense a lot of data into a small amount of space, which can be trying... Anything in particular that could use some design love?
Our goal is to make it easier to choose products/services for your business based on the companies that actually use them: What analytics do YC companies use? What do small non-profits use for CRM?
This product is pre-beta, and we definitely plan to add more features/data, including reviews. We'd really appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for you!
Our goal is to make it easier to choose products/services for your business based on the companies that actually use them: What analytics do YC companies use? What do small non-profits use for CRM?
This product is pre-beta, and we definitely plan to add more features/data, including reviews. We'd really appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for you!
We (B2brev.com, a YC company) surveyed 2500 merchants that used Groupon, LivingSocial and 18 other daily deal sites. Our data shows that overall, 75%+ would use Groupon and LivingSocial again. This is a decent indications that there are a large number of success stories out there (to magsafe's point).
To address 3 additional points with some data:
* REPEAT CUSTOMERS: We asked a 5-scale question of "How many repeat customers did you get?" with answers being None / Few / Moderate / Many / Tons / Not sure. About 15% of respondent said that Groupon and LivingSocial provided "Many" or "Tons". Anecdotally, many mentioned that a repeat rate of over 10% was very good compared to their expectations. About 18% were "Not sure"
* BARGAIN HUNTING CUSTOMERS: We read and categorized every single open-ended comment (160k words!), and 14% of respondents complained about Groupon/L.S. drawing the bargain hunters. In our opinion, this was lower than expected
* ADVERTISING BENEFIT: Local businesses definitely see a benefit to the daily deals beyond the direct sales. Again, based on the open-ended responses, it was the #2 most mentioned benefit. Anecdotally, many mentioned that they spend money to generate awareness anyway and that it was a very acceptable marketing cost
There is one caveat that many commenters here touched upon, which is that running a successful daily deal really depends on the type of business. For instance, of Restaurants and Shopping businesses, only about 50% would do the daily deal again--and there are wide ranges of satisfaction even within these category buckets.
In a nutshell, there are millions of local businesses and a lot of nuanced marketing needs (i.e., lots of nice opportunities to be addressed).
Groupon has a great network effect. They have 25MM users and tens of thousands of local businesses. It's not as good of a moat as FB but still damn nice.
Also, I'd argue that FB has a very obvious monetization: advertising. They supposedly generate $1B+ in ad rev.
Braintree is one of the most forward thinking payment providers out there. A good number of startups on HN have integrated with them (we have, too). They have an excellent policy about porting customer data (e.g., stored credit card numbers) when moving to a different provider. Amazing customer service overall.
The title of this blog post is sensationalistic. As described by the author himself, Yelp's actions seem completely justified. A burst of 15 positive reviews from new users in a short period would make a user like me suspicious.
And assuming that the 15 reviews garnered an average score of 4.5 stars, it would have placed the business in the top 3-5 ranked business in all of Bedford, MA (its hometown). If Yelp allowed such rankings, it'd be a slippery slope into spamville.
SigFig tracks over $315 billion in assets for everyday investors like you. We recently launched personalized, software-based asset management that anyone can afford for $10 per month, flat.
We're backed by Union Square Ventures, Bain, and Doll Capital Management.
Lead SRE / DevOps: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/4
Full-Stack Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/1
Lead QA Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/3
Growth Engineer: If you're obsessed with growth, love scientific experimentation and think that the most exciting code is what impacts the business the most, email [email protected] so I can accelerate the process for you
Full list of opportunities for engineers, designers and product managers here: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs