http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/ Martin Tobias musings... en-us Copyright 2012 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:33:50 -0800 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:34:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The daily deal business has it’s share of challenges.  One particular challenge is merchants providing products to the daily deal companies who themselves have shaky financials or questionable business models.  One huge blow up last year was Peanut Labs project... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2012/01/when-a-bad-busi.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2012/01/when-a-bad-busi.html Collective Buying Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:33:50 -0800 http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/06/trying-out-blog-1.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/06/trying-out-blog-1.html Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:56:56 -0800 Finn has five girls over for sleepover.  so I am shopping online for lots of stuff I have had on the list for some time.   Smart Hacks 6 pack of Sugru.com fix all silicon Replacement Gibbons Slack line for... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/05/sunday-night-sh.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/05/sunday-night-sh.html Sun, 29 May 2011 22:25:50 -0800 whoops.. hello letterly authors,   last week, the agency that we used to register the letter.ly domain was taken down as a side effect of the war in libya (.ly is the libyan top level domain). our domain registration expired, and we... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/04/libya-war-takes.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/04/libya-war-takes.html Guide to Privacy Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:59:30 -0800 A Daily Deal promotion is basically a marketing tool for merchants.  One of many including advertising, PR, coupons, word of mouth, reviews, directories, and other ways a merchant can use to attract and retain customers.  America is generally a free... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/03/how-to-not-get.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/03/how-to-not-get.html Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:40:55 -0800 Ok, I am in the software business and all software has bugs. Some software has more bugs than others. Some software is just simply poorly designed. Especially in areas where the application at first blush is pretty simple and anyone... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/01/living-social-h.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/01/living-social-h.html Collective Buying Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:47:12 -0800 Ok, this is my personal blog, so I can say personal things. This is Martin Tobias speaking.  Ok, I am also the CEO of Tippr with a dog in the Groupon/Livingsocial group buying fight, but this post is showing up... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/12/why-grougle-wou.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/12/why-grougle-wou.html Collective Buying Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:41:41 -0800 I have been talking about the power of putting deals in context with content for a long time.  This is the future of daily deals, not another site full of coupons.  Today, this was brought home in spades while reading... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/the-power-of-de.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/the-power-of-de.html Collective Buying Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:47:33 -0800 One of the great things about the PoweredByTippr platform is that the technology can enable group commerce for anyone with an audience.  This audience can be hyper local in one city, national with multiple local audiences, national with no... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/the-incredible.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/the-incredible.html Collective Buying Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:41:00 -0800 Our friends over at Yipit have launched Yipit Nation.  A daily deal aggregator focusing on national deals.  Happy to see it. Especially since they are including many of the sites that are PoweredByTippr including BusinessInsider!... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/yipit-nation-a.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/yipit-nation-a.html Collective Buying Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:11:16 -0800 How many $10 bills could you sell for $5.  Well bunches.  That is basically what http://weeklycinema.com was doing with discounted movie tickets.  At Tippr we promoted the offer for them and sold thousands.  Customers love discounted movie tickets.  We could... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/weekly-cinema-b.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/11/weekly-cinema-b.html Collective Buying Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:11:16 -0800 I am not making this stuff up.  Monopolies generally keep prices high and extort consumers.  While Groupon is not a monopoly, they are the big boys in daily deal and are able to use their weight to lock up merchants... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/10/groupon-is-bad.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/10/groupon-is-bad.html Collective Buying Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:00:40 -0800 I will gather in Seattle with many other great speakers at TechNW on Monday September 27th.  It's a day-long event featuring innovative technology companies in the Northwest.  At TechNWhttp://ow.ly/2DFQr you'll hear from industry thought leaders, hot start-ups, successful entrepreneurs and local... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/09/i-am-speaking-a.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/09/i-am-speaking-a.html Martin Personal Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:14:33 -0800 Dear Friend, Each week, we here at Defeat 1098 report our contributions to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) in accordance with campaign finance rules. Yes on 1098 is required to do the same. There has yet to be a... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/08/defeat-1098-is.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/08/defeat-1098-is.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:48:24 -0800 Ah to be a 24 year old CEO of a hot company again.  The mistakes I would not make…  Well the CEO’s job is to be optimistic and put a positive spin on things to the press, but it is... http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/08/the-facts-contr.html http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2010/08/the-facts-contr.html Collective Buying Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:24:01 -0800