{"id":2184,"date":"2012-01-01T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T05:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2012-09-15T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:58:08","slug":"sec-letter-lists-questions-for-groupon-before-ipo-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"SEC letter lists questions for Groupon before IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20111228\/NEWS07\/111229852\/sec-letter-lists-questions-for-groupon-before-ipo\">SEC letter lists questions for Groupon before IPO | Consumer | Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SEC questioned why a money-losing startup used $940 million of $1.1 billion in venture capital to partially cash out early investors rather than invest in growth. Many analysts and some potential investors raised similar questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEC letter lists questions for Groupon before IPO | Consumer | Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business. The SEC questioned why a money-losing startup used $940 million of $1.1 billion in venture capital to partially cash out early investors rather than invest in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,355],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-groupon","tag-ipo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}