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As a fellow Northwestern grad it disappointing to see him go, but as a lover of Chicago its probably for the best. I'd really love to see GroupOn succeed and help anchor a diversified tech presence in the city. We have some great startups, but you need big public companies in the same way a mall needs a Macys, Nordstrom, etc.



Unfortunately, at least as I understand it, the center of gravity for tech at Groupon is in SFBA now.


Why do I routinely see people on the net capitalize the second o? (You're not the first I've seen even today.) Is it like Microsoft, where it used to actually be MicroSoft and people like Mark Cuban still spell it that way out of hipsterish I-was-there-in-the-old-days sentiment? Or do a lot of people just think thats how it's supposed to be?


I think it's just because the pun "Groupon = coupon" is too subtle to be intuitive to me. I think of it as "group on [to]" which I realize makes no sense.




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