高朋

Feast, and your halls are crowded;

设宴，高朋满盈，

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Mr Ouyang, a former Tencent executive, runs the company together with four other managing directors hired by Mr samwer.

曾担任腾讯高管的欧阳云与桑威尔聘用的其他四名董事总经理一起运营高朋网。

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Mr Ouyang said the company had already bought several coupon site groups to help it enter smaller cities, and would continue to do so.

欧阳云表示，高朋已收购了几家团购网站，助其打入中小城市市场，该公司将继续坚持这一战略。

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Nicole Peters, an avid online shopper, describes how she bought a massage via one of Groupon's rivals.

网购狂人尼克尔•彼得森向我们讲述了她在一家网站上团购按摩的经历，该网站为高朋竞争对手之一。

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But with so many pretenders around, it may be unwise to pay a premium for its shares.

有如此多的山寨货在四周虎视眈眈，高朋为自己的股份支付溢价着实非明智之举。

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Although Groupon is less than three years old, it operates in 43 countries and has no fewer than 83m subscribers.

尽管高朋网诞生才不到3年，它的业务已经涵盖43个国家，团客多达8300万人。

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The company said it was "outraged" to discover that the merchant involved had given it fake agent qualification documents, and had started legal proceedings.

高朋称，相关供货商提供了伪造的代理商证书；高朋感到非常“愤怒”，已开始采取法律行动。

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Groupon's growth has attracted big competitors such as LivingSocial as well as a host of smaller start-ups.

高朋网在崛起的同时也诱生了强大的竞争对手Living Social和一群规模较小的新兴企业。

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All things D reports that daily deals site Groupon wants that initial public offering ( IPO) to happen sooner rather than later& and by "sooner," we mean as early as this week.

All Things D报道，团购网站高朋（Groupon）希望早些而不是晚些时候开始首次公开募股（IPO）&所谓“早些”，就是指本周。

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A search showed that the domain name was registered by Ouyang Yun at Shenzhen Tencent Computer System.

记者在搜索后发现，高朋网域名的注册人为深圳腾讯计算机系统有限公司（Shenzhen Tencent Computer System）的欧阳云。

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He also pointed to Groupon and Twitter as other examples of successful companies whose founders got their starts early but also spent years refining their services.

他还指出，高朋（Groupon）和Twitter也是创始人早早起步但花多年时间精心打造的成功案例。

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This could limit both companies'options in using the phrase for marketing purposes.

如此一来，高朋网和满座网两家公司可能都不太方便将该成语用于营销目的。

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The company may boast 83m users, but only 16m have actually bought a Groupon.

高朋网吹嘘自己拥有8300万名用户，但其中真正买过单的只有1600万人。

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Facebook enjoys a powerful network effect; Groupon, less so.

脸谱网拥有强大的社群效应，这方面高朋网则逊色一筹。

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Now a number of web outfits, including Groupon, which offers online coupons, and Pandora Media, an internet-radio firm, are queuing to join the party.

如今包括高朋网（Groupon，团购网站）和潘多拉传媒（网络广播公司）在内的多家网络企业也对此趋之若鹜，希望能分一杯羹。

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And it has been building a new business line called Groupon Goods, which sells things such as watches and nail polish at discounted prices.

该公司现正在建立一个名为“高朋产品”的新业务部门，以折后价售卖产品，如手表，指甲油。

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Lots of talk about Groupon, which reportedly has already hired bankers.

很多人都说是高朋（Groupon），据报道，高朋早已聘请了投行。

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He added: "Gaopeng is also undergoing some reorganisation of some departments, for example increasing centralisation of sales operations."

他补充称：“高朋网也在对一些部门进行重组，例如加大了销售部门的整合。”

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Groupon created a new market.

高朋网开拓了一个全新市场。

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Critics find this alarming. Groupon retorts that it is simply spending heavily to scoop up subscribers while the market it created is in its infancy.

批评家认为这个现象值得敲响警钟，但高朋网反驳说这片新开创的市场尚处发展初期，赤字仅是源于招揽团客所需的大笔开销。

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Gaopeng is expanding through acquisition.

高朋正在通过收购进行扩张。

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But such measures do not reflect the risks of Groupon's model.

但这样的基准并不能反映高朋网这个案例中的风险。

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Groupon's potential price tag ($ 15 billion, by one estimate) is already controversial.

高朋网的价值评估（一度被估计达150亿美元）一直充满争议。

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Gaopeng said the decision to make the drastic cuts was driven by considerations of performance.

高朋网表示，之所以决定大举裁员，是基于业绩的考虑。

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A student might buy theatre tickets on Groupon for half price.

学生可以通过高朋网购买半价电影票。

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Its success outside America has been patchy: just 9% of its subscribers in London have ever bought anything from it.

该公司在美国国外的业绩更是良莠不齐：以伦敦为例，仅有9%的团客在高朋网上购买过东西。

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Groupon also allows merchants to charge different people different prices for the same product.

高朋网还可能帮助商家实现同一款商品的因人定价。

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In short, Groupon is still the king of online discounts.

简而言之，高朋网依旧是在线折扣网站的龙头老大。

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This is a boon to consumers, but confers no lasting "first-mover" advantage on Groupon.

在这个市场中，消费者占尽便宜，而身为“开山鼻祖”的高朋网确无长久的先动优势。

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The only snag is that Groupon is unlikely to get much of a break while it hunts for a new chief executive.

唯一的困难是，高朋在寻觅新一任执行官的时候，不大可能有太多的喘息机会。

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