Posts tagged groupon
Posts tagged groupon
Booklist has named Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever one of the best business books of the year! What an honor. Many thanks to the editors.
Pack these books if you want to come back from the beach a smarter entrepreneur.
Sennett shares scoop after inside scoop in a jaunty prose style, leading our reviewer to wonder whether, like Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires, this fascinating story is destined for the silver screen.
Amazing that a book has already been published about the company
CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla interviewed me for Squawk on the Street about Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever and asked a particularly good question about the importance of the company to Chicago’s tech scene.
Simon Constable of The Wall Street Journal’s Digits program asked me why Groupon turned down that nearly $6 billion offer from Google, as detailed in Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever.
My segment about Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever on the internationally syndicated Business First with Angela Miles has been aired in more countries than I’ll ever get to in person.
What a thrill to discuss my Groupon book with the legendary Chicago reporter Carol Marin on public television station WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.
I talk Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television’s Bloomberg West.
Fortune contributing editor Duff McDonald discusses Frank Sennett’s new book Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever. And here’s Duff’s review in the Wall Street Journal, in which he says, “Mr. Sennett had an enviable level of access during his reporting, and it pays off in a highly readable series of vignettes that demonstrate just how much personality plays in high-stakes Silicon Valley deal-making.” He then adds, “For students of start-ups, there is much to enjoy in this breezy retelling of three tumultuous years with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line.” Thanks, Duff!
Here’s my June 19 discussion of Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever with Kris Kridel and Sherman Kaplan during the Noon Business Hour on Chicago’s Newsradio WBBM AM 780 and FM 105.9.
Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever: The Inside Story of How One Insane Gamble, Tons of Unbelievable Hype, and Millions of Wild Deals Made Billions for One Ballsy Joker will be published June 5 by St. Martin’s Press.
Pre-order the hardcover now at a big discount from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, or pre-order the e-book for your Kindle, Nook or iPad.
And if you want to pre-order the book from your favorite local independent bookstore, click here.
However you may decide to track it down, I sincerely hope you enjoy it.