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Business Insider... A great source for wild Apple rumors. Also, funny top 10 lists like: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-science-can-teach-us-about-be

• spitx 14y ago
  "The history of Groupon’s chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, was also unearthed, showing a lawsuit-prone entrepreneur who flipped a dot-com company in 1999 only to have it lead to bankruptcy a year later for the firm he had sold it to. And Groupon’s filing shows that when the company privately raised $950 million in a pre-I.P.O. round in January, it paid out $810 million of that to its investors and employees, a red flag for any investor. (Mr. Lefkofsky and his wife took home about $319 million of the total.)" Source: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/the-missed-red-flags-on-groupon/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/the-missed-red-flags-...