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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by VictorHo on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @05:46AM (#1786643)
Sorry to disappoint, but this is not from Mint - it's actually my team's presentation for the Stanford West Coast Venture Case Competition when I was an undergrad at Berkeley (I am Victor, listed on the first slide).

It's a funny story but we won the competition with this presentation, in part because Shasta Ventures, one of the judges there, happened to actually be funding the company (which they announced 3 days after we pitched it). For the questions regarding the financials, I don't know how closely they match reality but we were told by the judges that we won in part because the numbers were conservative/realistic and were in the same ballpark as their own figures.

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by newy on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:42AM (#1786330)
Don't think this is Mint's deck. See the names on the first slide. This is a case study by Berkeley students. Still a good reference though.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by SabrinaDent on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @04:12AM (#1786496)
Yes, sorry, on closer inspection you are correct; it isn't the actual deck, it's a post-event pitch deck replay. But since I can count the number of actual, in-the-wild pitch decks I've seen on one hand, maybe other people will still find it useful.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by HistoryInAction on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @04:22AM (#1786516)
Alan Rutledge, one of the study's authors is on Quora if anyone wants to ask him about the study: http://www.quora.com/Alan-Rutledge
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by viggity on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @08:08AM (#1786830)
I thought the most interesting slide was "Value to Partners" (#7) that listed average Customer Acquisition costs for various companies - ex E-Trade spends $475 to acquire a single customer. Wow. That is a lot of money.

The slide lists http://www.emetrics.org/articles/acquisition.shtml as the source, but it is 404'd.

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by bl4k on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:01AM (#1787083)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070430073433/http://www.emetric...

Old data.

Also I know that this wasn't the real deck, but there was too much emphasis on patents and I have never seen a valuation/expected return in a deck.

Good research because it ended up being right, but I suspect that Mint revenue was a lot more than $4M and they spent a lot more than what this research implies.

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by ig1 on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @08:11AM (#1786834)
Some of the slides from Mint's actual pitch deck were shown in a 2008 presentation by the Mint founder:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-m...

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by SabrinaDent on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:23AM (#1787168)
Wow those slides are really... not pretty...

Interesting how the slides from the 2006/2007 deck are so much less polished and high-value, design-wise, than the 2008 deck they're presented in.

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by jasonjei on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @05:57AM (#1786651)
I think every startup should look at the slide about the problems that Mint solves for its Total Addressable Market, even if it isn't the original Mint deck. The interesting thing about this presentation is it looks at the problems people managing their money have experienced, and the ways they solved the problems, and quantified the solution in numbers (the bottom-line for any business, not a free open source project, is to quantify the solution in dollars). So Mint saved users time (consistent UI) and matched the buyer to the seller of this data. Before you try to make a dime off any good idea, look at these slides and see if you can answer many of the same questions Mint did.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by hartror on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:32AM (#1786316)
I wonder how slide 10 "Finacials" has matched with reality. Especially as the deck was created and used pre-GFC. Would love if one of the founders commented on that, though would be surprised if they did.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by Maro on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:12AM (#1786745)
It'd be nice to see an example deck for a B2B startup, eg. selling enterprise software or such, so selling fewer copies but at a higher pricetag.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by andrewljohnson on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:34AM (#1786318)
What does pre-launch mean? This deck lists First Round, Felicis, and Ron Conway as investors, and slide one has screenshots of a product.

Pre-launch? Really?

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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by erikstarck on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @03:55AM (#1786468)
Aaah, the good old "potential customer base" slide. Isn't that one of the big no-nos in startup pitches?
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by newhouseb on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:28AM (#1786690)
yeah, among other things I've heard it called "Bubblegum Marketing" - sweet and juicy but full of air that ultimately collapses into nothing.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by bl4k on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:03AM (#1787085)
same with the financials. leave it out.
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Re:Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck by jfarmer on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:23AM (#1786296)
I don't think this was Mint's pitch deck, though it is a great case study.
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