Zhou to group buying website Cold water: It's too late to do

Recent news, for the domestic popular group buying site, well-known entrepreneurs, angel investors, Qihoo 360, chairman of the Zhou to them poured a cold water, he thought that now do group buying site has been late. Since March this year, Groupon's group-buying site has been growing rapidly in the country, with more than two months of such sites springing up in the country.　　Zhou, the industry's leading entrepreneur, mentioned the group buying site in a public speech in Friday (May 14), throwing cold water on Groupon's prospects in China and thinking it is too late to do group buying. One background to Zhou's Groupon-style Groupon is that he has recently emphasized his "disruptive innovation" view.　　His argument is that the Chinese internet giants will be waiting to enter many new areas, the competitive environment is worse than the Silicon Valley, so the probability of success of improved innovation is low, entrepreneurship should choose subversive innovation. Zhou The famous entrepreneur Wang in a recent public setting. Wang two months ago set up a copy of Groupon model group buying website, the United States network, after his founder of the network, the domestic net, the rice has a successful precedent abroad. Zhou said at the time, "our famous entrepreneur in China is good at copying American projects, and one from America." Now get up and buy, we should think more about the reality of United China, not every day to see the United States, or to encourage Chinese Internet companies to innovate. "In a public speech in the Friday, Zhou took the net as an example, he said," perhaps a lot of people know that there is a net, the founder of the net, I also know, when he founded the net, this thing became, any one thing success has many accidents, but many people came to a conclusion, that is, plagiarism is the best , and then he copied something else, the problem is Sina also began plagiarism, QQ also began to copy, the entire Chinese portal plagiarism when you found that the problem came out, you as plagiarism no any different things, there is no subversive things, you have no way to compete with big companies.　　"Some entrepreneurs who choose to do group buying sites do not agree with Zhou's" already late "view. NetEase technology in the interview half a month ago when some group buy site CEO also talked about how to deal with the problem of competition giants. 24 Coupon CEO Du Yinan that the group buying site will not be a monopoly of the industry, as long as the merchant and service well, not too worried about the strong resources to join. Handle network CEO is a joke, "If you worry about the Giants to enter, simply do not start a business in the internet industry."　　Love Help net CEO Jianguo and F Group founder, President Rynning all think, the core advantage of group buying website operation ability under the line, this internet giant also has no advantage. 1.5 ago, group buying website Groupon.com was born in the United States, its main model is a City one day group purchase once. Groupon's rapid success after the launch, after half a year has begun to profit, is expected to be the revenue this year can reach 350 millionDollar, the site's valuation has reached 1.35 billion dollars. Since March this year, the domestic in two months has appeared in hundreds of group buying sites.