{"id":1736,"date":"2011-01-14T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/ipos\/investment-bankers-looking-for-a-piece-of-groupon-ipo\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:06:52","slug":"investment-bankers-looking-for-a-piece-of-groupon-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/ipos\/investment-bankers-looking-for-a-piece-of-groupon-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment Bankers Looking For A Piece Of Groupon IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703959104576081553310431910.html\">According to the WSJ<\/a>, investment bankers are beginning to discuss proposals with Groupon for an IPO.&#160; Should Groupon go public this year it would likely be the most talked about IPO of the year (assuming Facebook holds off for another year).&#160; Groupon already turned down a $6 billion offer from Google which in my opinion was a big mistake but some value the company now at $15 billion so what do I know.&#160; It\u2019s a great business model but with a low barrier to entry and I think Google will begin making a much bigger push in this space and have the infrastructure in place to do so.&#160; The company was rumored to be looking at an IPO in the fall, but is now looking like it could happen within a couple months.&#160; Considering the company just raised nearly $1 billion from big investors, there probably isn\u2019t a need to rush an IPO, but at the same time the IPO environment is strong which may not be the case later this year.&#160; Anyone smell a bubble?&#160; Facebook $50 billion valuation, Groupon $15 billion, Twitter nearly $4 billion\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the WSJ, investment bankers are beginning to discuss proposals with Groupon for an IPO.&#160; Should Groupon go public this year it would likely be the most talked about IPO of the year (assuming Facebook holds off for another year).&#160; Groupon already turned down a $6 billion offer from Google which in my opinion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/ipos\/investment-bankers-looking-for-a-piece-of-groupon-ipo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investment Bankers Looking For A Piece Of Groupon IPO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}