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21 Million Reasons For Mint To Sell

21 Million Reasons For Mint To Sell

By Chris Yeh on September 19, 2009

When I heard about Mint’s sale to Intuit for $170 million, I never imagined that it would be controversial. I posted my congratulations to the friends who made money in the deal, and moved on. It’s been a busy week, and I haven’t been keeping up with Twitter and RSS, so imagine my surprise to [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, exit strategy, intuit, mint, mintuit, startups, vc economics, vc funding, venture capital | 2 Responses

What’s Wrong with Flipping a Startup for $170M?

What’s Wrong with Flipping a Startup for $170M?

By Zoli Erdos on September 18, 2009

Nothing, IMHO.  But there’s a new debate on whether the Mint / Intuit deal was a good deal, or selling short-sightedly. I’m with Eric @CloudAve and Sarah @ TechCrunch in their call to “move past this incrementalism and start thinking big” – they just use Mint as a trigger to a good thought process.  But [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, exit strategy, intuit, mint, mintuit, startups, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

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