The CEO of the now defunct personal finance website Wesabe.com posted a great article detailing some of the reasons why he believes that Wesabe lost out to Mint.com and caused Wesabe to fold all while Mint.com was recently acquired by Intuit for $170 million. You can read former Wesabe CEO Mark Hedlund’s post here but one thing I really wanted to touch on via the comments of the Hacker news discussion thread was this comment about the Wesabe.com domain name versus the Mint.com domain name:
“I think if the names are flipped – if your company was named mint.com, theirs wesabe.com, then quite possibly you win.”
Wow! Not really sure I agree with that (even though I do absolutely detest the Wesabe.com domain name and always have from the first moment I saw it – AND I love the Mint.com domain name) but definitely some food for thought. What do YOU think?
