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How to Steal the Next Billion Dollar Website Idea: A Case Study

Viper Chill

On the 15th of January 2008 the domain name Groupon.com went live for the first time. 2008 was also the year that IndieGogo became one of the first ‘crowdfunding’ websites. A year later, the biggest rivals of each would launch in the form of Living Social and Kickstarter. ” He wasn’t kidding.