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Re:Why Wesabe Lost to Mint by theBobMcCormick on Friday October 01, 2010 @02:43PM (#1748072)
Is that about risk then? Or is it about the advantage of being the guy with $2million in his pocket to drop on the business before he even starts, and the connections to get the sweetheart deal with Yodlee?
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Re:Why Wesabe Lost to Mint by hyperbovine on Friday October 01, 2010 @03:46PM (#1748346)
I don't know anything about the guy other than what I have read, but nothing I have read suggests to me that a) he started out rich or b) he had any sort of insider connection to Yodlee. (TFA plainly states that they could have gone the Yodlee route first, but chose not to.)

He just strikes me as someone who is a smart businessman, better at it than your average hacker.

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Re:Why Wesabe Lost to Mint by jyiin on Friday October 01, 2010 @04:58PM (#1748710)
That is incorrect. Patzer offered stock in his company to the previous holder of the mint.com domain, which ended up being very lucrative.
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