Groupon embarked on a new round of U.S.

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Groupon lonely, even begun high-profile.  

Its android tablet netbook rockchip chairman, best google android tablet co-founder Eric Leif Khodorkovsky had founded several companies, two of which are listed companies. Today, however, the public seems ignorant of experienced veteran SEC requirements, the application for listing of the "quiet period" in a high-profile interviews to the media and said would "substantially profitable." This is unashamedly a rally or "various service trades," the empty? Groupon in accordance with the instructions in the prospectus, the company first quarter gross margin of 41.9%. Make a simple analogy, this means that each sell a 12 per coupon, Groupon income of 5.03 dollars. But if you count Groupon to attract new customers and spend the $ 10 (above 10 dollars voucher), and finally it is costing him $ 4.97.

In fact, according Groupon financial android tablet netbook rockchip statements, corporate marketing expenses in the first quarter of this year up to $ 208,200,000, $ 644,700,000 total revenue accounted for 32.3%, and then remove the nearly 60% of the purchase cost of coupons, the result is the loss of 100 million dollars.