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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

MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated).

MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated).

By Zoli Erdos on September 14, 2009

TechCrunch50 could not have asked for a better start:  they get to announce that personal finance startup Mint winner of the $50K grand prize @ TC50 two years ago just got acquired for $170M. Great exit for a startup – not so sure about concerned users.   But the big question today is why it made […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged acquisitions, aggregation, benchmarking, data mining, intuit, intumint, mergers, microsoft, Microsoft Money, mint, mintuit, money management, ms money, online banking, personal finance, pfm, quickbooks, quicken, saas, wesabe | 4 Responses

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