I’ve been thinking a lot about Groupon walking away from the $6 billion offer from  Google on Friday night. Our guest blogger today, Rusty Speidel, and I had a text message marathon  about it after it happened and I asked him to give his perspective on the deal. So I don’t want to steal his thunder, which will publish at noon central time today.

But I’m trying to figure out why this is bothering me so much. It’s like when Laci Peterson was killed and I became obsessed with her trial. I didn’t know her.  We didn’t even live in the same part of the country. Yet I read and watched everything I could get my hands on and couldn’t wait for the guilty conviction to come down on her husband. I’m obsessed about Groupon turning down $6 billion like I was obsessed with Laci Peterson. (more…)