Tuanbao

China’s Boldest Groupon Clone to Launch Open Group Buying Platform: a World First?

China’s Boldest Groupon Clone to Launch Open Group Buying Platform: a World First?

Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei Innovation isn’t something you would normally expect fron Tuanbao, China’s most blatant Groupon clone. After all, Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei not only snapped up the groupon.cn
C. Custer · · 3 min read
2,082 Chinese Group Buy Sites Bit the Dust in the Last Nine Months

2,082 Chinese Group Buy Sites Bit the Dust in the Last Nine Months

Group buy sites over the past year What goes up must come down, and China’s group buy sector has been busy learning that the hard way for the past nine
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Rumor: Tuanbao on Verge of Bankruptcy, CEO Already Planning New Startup

Rumor: Tuanbao on Verge of Bankruptcy, CEO Already Planning New Startup

Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei We have had fun watching the rollercoaster ride of Chinese group buy clone Tuanbao — also known as Groupon.cn — but it appears that rollercoaster may
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Market Leaders Emerging in China’s Group Buy Space

Market Leaders Emerging in China’s Group Buy Space

We’ve seen a lot happen in China’s group buy space over the past few months. What was a much tighter pack six months ago, has seen a number of competitors
Rick Martin · · 1 min read

Tuanbao CEO Ren Chunlei: ‘Investment is Poison’

Tuanbao (aka Groupon.cn) CEO Ren Chunlei is quickly becoming my new favorite internet crazy person. Hot on the heels of his decision to stop accepting money from customers — all
C. Custer · · 2 min read

A Window into the Demise and Bizarre Rebirth of TuanBao

Empty office after TuanBao closed numerous branches and laid off staff Chinese magazine The Founder (创业家) ran an interesting in-depth feature today on TuanBao, also known as Groupon.cn, the group
C. Custer · · 3 min read

One Day After Deadline, Tuanbao’s New Services Still Missing

Tuanbao, the group buy clone that snagged the Groupon.cn domain before Groupon could, is in trouble. That much has been clear for a while. But, like many group buy sites
C. Custer · · 2 min read

TuanBao (Groupon.cn) Denies Going Bankrupt, Admits Financial Problems

Of all the Groupon clones in China, TuanBao is probably the most audacious, given that it bought the groupon.cn domain name out so early that the real Groupon had to
C. Custer · · 2 min read

Rumor: Several Chinese Group Buy Sites Way Behind Paying Merchants

A sweet hangout location for whoever finally wins the group buy market in China The group buy business in China has gotten so rough that I don’t need to link
C. Custer · · 3 min read

China’s Most Audacious Groupon Clone on the Brink, 80% of Staff Fired

The group buy website that most audaciously cloned Groupon in China looks like it might be one of the first big-name casualties in the ferocious daily deals market. Formerly known
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
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