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" One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose. "
Andrew Mason
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" Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. "
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" I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange. "
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" Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. "
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" When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper. "
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" All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure. "
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" If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you. "
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" Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years. "
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" In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas. "
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