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In my opinion, at the point LivingSocial copied Groupon's business model, they weren't a startup anymore; before that they were a social app on Facebook.

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You're only a startup if you have an entirely original business model? I don't agree with that definition.

I think it means, at the point in TIME when they became a groupon copy they where already past the "startup" phase.

Not that they stopped being a startup because they copied groupon

Crazy to see the downvote mafia around here on this kind of thing.

Hmm, you may be right. Definitely not how I read it at first.

In any event, I think they were a startup at that point in time, but I can see how reasonable people might disagree.

This may be a 'No true Scotsman'

No True Scotsman keeps moving the goal posts by endlessly revising the definitions of terms in a debate.

:)

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