A lot of new daily deal websites struggle growing their listserv to a critical mass.  Hitting that mass allows you to sell a sufficient number of deals and bring in enough revenue to help pay your bills (maybe even your staff, too?) on a consistent basis. We’ve all seen the e-mails offering to sell you [...]

“Groupon clone” is a term that is thrown around a lot these days and for good reason.  Some websites copy every last detail by copying Groupon’s source code and pasting a different name on it.  Sites like Groupon.cn (a Chinese knock-off) even have an identical layout and color scheme.  I assume the candor is similar, [...]