Startup Strategy 101

You probably heard about Mint, the personal finance site that launched two years ago and was acquired for $170 million last month by Intuit.

The following video of Mint’s CEO Aaron Patzer’s presentation on building startups from the ground up, gives a lot of answers to questions presented to entrepreneurs launching a startup in Silicon Valley. I had to learn this stuff on the job– Aaron’s highly recommendable disclosures and advice includes:

  • Cofounders and employees
  • Incorporation
  • Financial modeling
  • Funding Rounds
  • Goals and milestones for each round
  • Handling investors

The presentation’s deck is available here .

Featured on BusinessWeek’s Business Exchange

I will be the Featured User on Business Exchange on Wednesday, October 14 for 24 hours.

Business Exchange is a service of BusinesWeek that allows users to create business topics, collaboratively aggregate content and connect with other business focused users around these topics. The goal is to have access at the right time to actionable insight delivered in form of a feed.

Check my profile and contributions that led to be BX’s Featured User here .

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