Quick blog roundup of things I’m reading:

Great post on ReadWriteWeb on what a great web service should accomplish: Build an Insanely Great Web Service.

An interesting, although highly generalized, post on Slate.com about the purchase of Mint.com by Intuit for $170MM last week: The Triumph of Web 2.5

A different take on the purchase of Mint.com from a founder of 37Signals.com: The next generation bends over

Regarding the Intuit purchase, it seems naive to think that incumbents won’t buy emerging competitors, or that those new contenders won’t sell…

But Mint does look like a bit of a recession victim: With a strong growth pattern, increasing revenues and a good technical and psychological lead, I’m sure it could have gotten a lot more in another 24 months, so the logical thing would have been to wait.

Which means there probably was a VC who needed out in order to repay the LPs in their fund, and forced the sale. More background will probably emerge in coming days.

(cross-posted on Facebook.)

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Kraettli Lawrence Epperson

Managing Director at JumpPhase Ventures

This blog is dedicated to providing advice, tools and encouragement from one entrepreneur to another. I want to keep this practical and accessible for the new entrepreneur while also providing enough sophistication and depth to prove useful to the successful serial entrepreneur. My target rests somewhere between the garage and the board room, where the work gets done and the hockey stick emerges.

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