Archive for September, 2009

Hiring the Right Start-Up Lawyer – No Posers Allowed!

Posted 21 September 2009 | By Chris McDemus | Categories: Lawyers | 1 Comment

If you are an entrepreneur or the founder of a start-up or emerging growth company, one of the most important decisions you will make is hiring the right lawyer.  Like all things in life, there are good lawyers and bad lawyers and telling the difference up front can be difficult.  The service they sell (advice) [...]

Intuit Buys Mint.com for $170M

Posted 15 September 2009 | By Chris McDemus | Categories: Exits | 4 Comments

I was surprised today to hear that Intuit bought Mint.com for $170M.  Maybe surprised is the wrong word.  From a deal and synergy perspective, I can certainly understand why Intuit would want to do the deal.  Reportedly, Mint.com had 1.4M users, tracked $175B in transactions and $47B in assets and identified $300M in potential savings for [...]

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