Pretty much a perfect mintpal launch IMO. Price didn't really change much from what we've been seeing and we fibally have some volume.
If there had been a massive price spike, the resulting dump would have been far worse for the coin.
I'm waiting for the big players to do some pumps on mintpal, and mintpal is being used more and more for doing pumps. It allow people to switch their position, too add more as in every pump there are investors that bought to high and need to dump their coins so you can pickup those cheap coins, and prices will adjust theirself again.