{"id":91,"date":"2011-11-10T01:45:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-11-10T01:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:45:56","slug":"groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/2011\/11\/10\/groupon\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\/vancouver\/?utm_campaign=US_DT_SEA_GGL_TXT_NAQ_SR_CBP_CH1_YBR_k%2Agroupon._m%2Ae_d%2Abranded--general_g%2Agroupon&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=Google\">Groupon <\/a>is a website that sells coupons, it partners up with local businesses\u00a0and offers deals ranging from 50 %- 90 % off over 500 markets. In my opinion, Groupon qualifies as an entrepreneurial company \u00a0with its innovative \u00a0business idea and different ways of operating. Groupon operates on a model where it will only offer its \u2018deal-of-the-day\u2019 if enough customers have purchased the particular coupon. This method\u00a0attracts small businesses, because it not only ensures companies to advertise at a lower risk but also serves promotional purposes of the services being offered. Groupon has initiated the online discount website trend and has grown rapidly\u00a0by making a profit by taking a percentage from the price consumer pays for deal.Groupon possess distictive characteristics that are noted to be an entrepreneurial company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/files\/2011\/11\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94\" title=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/files\/2011\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/files\/2011\/11\/images.jpg 338w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/files\/2011\/11\/images-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groupon is a website that sells coupons, it partners up with local businesses\u00a0and offers deals ranging from 50 %- 90 % off over 500 markets. In my opinion, Groupon qualifies as an entrepreneurial company \u00a0with its innovative \u00a0business idea and different ways of operating. Groupon operates on a model where it will only offer its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/szhou268\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}