{"id":2802,"date":"2012-02-07T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:06:21","slug":"groupon-scoops-up-silicon-valley-startup-adku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Groupon scoops up Silicon Valley startup Adku"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Adku was founded in San Francisco a year and a half ago by a group of former Google employees. It specializes in using data to craft personalized shopping experiences on the Web and has financial backing from high-profile venture capital firms such as Greylock Partners and Battery Ventures. The latter firm is also an investor in Groupon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/breaking\/chi-groupon-scoops-up-silicon-valley-startup-adku-20120206,0,4889375.story\">Groupon scoops up Silicon Valley startup Adku &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adku.com\/2012\/02\/adku-groupon.html\">www.adku.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.9447650625370443\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Adku started a year and a half ago from our passion for big data and a desire to create products that would instantly and automatically give users a more personalized experience. We had ambitious <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adku.com\/2010\/12\/why-did-we-start-adku.html\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">goals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> and some of the most rewarding and busy days of our lives. We were also fortunate to assemble an amazing <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adku.com\/about\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">team<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> of engineers and investors and create something special. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adku was founded in San Francisco a year and a half ago by a group of former Google employees. It specializes in using data to craft personalized shopping experiences on the Web and has financial backing from high-profile venture capital &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2802\">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":[580,170,63,308],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-data-modeling","tag-groupon","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}