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Great post guys. I have used Groupon many times and the places I revisit are the ones that have excellent customer service.

I think an important factor to note is Deal Expiration date. Many businesses only give customers 1-2 months to redeem a certificate, if you span this out across a year you will save yourselves a lot of energy when the Groupon is about to expire.

Sponge is not a TechStars startup, you clearly didn't know.

It could be that the GPL license increases software adoption.

If Thesis was GPL, there would be a lot more Thesis powered Wordpress blogs out there. I think Matt attributes a lot of Wordpress' success to the open community the GPL allows, which evidently leads to more and more people using Wordpress as the platform of choice.

And like Matt said, if the members of the Wordpress community start thinking that its OK to not use GPL, it could be slippery for Wordpress as it will effect growth.

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I guess people feel like he doesn't deserve credit.

Then you should judge and upvote his post. Please do not tell people how to vote -- that itself is judging. Users are given the ability to upvote or downvote and the community should see that through. Its always interesting to me how many people jump in and try to establish rules on upvoting and downvoting. I'm sorry but every member of this community should upvote and downvote as they please.

The New logo is basically images as the M.

I was trying to figure out how I can use Steve Blank's ideas on customer development. But my biggest issue was finding potential customers to interview. This post helps a lot.

Thanks.

How do you know the iPad wasn't 5 years in the making?

Yah, its not a huge deal. But something I thought I would share with the community here.

http://twitter.com/jason -- more tweets coming in.

If you all have cars, I would probably stay away from SF. Parking is expensive. I like Berkeley as your solution.

Thats fair. Theres no denying Jason is good at what he does and understands the web business better than most. I feel like this is an opportunity for those on HN to learn the way he rolls and manages his business.

Of the pages indexed in Google that are of this type of spam in nature, Mahalo accounts for less than .1% .. I think this is more Google's issue than Mahalo's.

His business would come crashing down if he admits even to an inch of this. I have to respect that he knows how to run his business and respond to these types of concerns that are raised about his ethics. But that still doesn't excuse the facts.

"we accidentally took that off when we moved to Mahalo 3.0 i think." Jason is the last person who would accidentally make a move like that. Its all planed.

GPS: Working on it. 1998 was around the time GPS was commercialized.

Right. Mahalo had a call out for 17 or so "interns/volunteers" a few months back... thats who replaced the editorial staff.

I figure its a better deal than the ones that cost 1000+ for an early bird ticket.

I think TechZULU will be streaming this event live. But the atmosphere is what I go for.

This is solid.

Nothing against Mark. I am an entrepreneur myself, I admire his aggressiveness. The video says it all.

Thanks for the heads up.

Did you hear the part about the toolbar he couldn't remove?

Ya his main point was recruiting. You need to go through the junior leagues before you can become a professional athlete he says.