Innovations of copy-paste: Groupon cloned in Russia and China

Even a casual look at the new Russian site BigLion shows that the creators not only copied the business model from Groupon , but also simply tore off the design and navigation in the smallest detail. Sites look completely identical.

Even some media in Russia wrote about the opening of this site. dp.ru writes that the service is “ideologically close” to Groupon, noting that 30 million dollars were invested in Groupon at the end of 2009, which confirms that the business model is working. In this case, not a word about the ethical and legal issues of site cloning and business models.
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At the end of the article there is a note for potential Russian cloners. It is noted that business ideas for startups should be found in the news on CrunchBase , which reports on American startups who have received investments.

This is how the latest technologies reach Russia.

Recently, it also became aware of the Chinese clone Groupon. They went further than BigLion by copying even the name of the project Groupon.cn

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