[wpietri]

I think that a) Groupon will take longer to blow up than that, and b) people will be happy to write off the daily deals sector as something pretty much unrelated to Silicon Valley. Groupon is in Chicago, Living Social is in DC. They are marketing companies, not technology companies.

Now if something else fails big, I'm sure people will see a trend. But I don't think Groupon will be enough.

[antr]

Groupon is VERY Silicon Valley, investors include NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins.