episode 40

Josh and Chris interview Founder and CEO of Mint Software, Aaron Patzer. Aaron is the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com.

Mint is a free personal finance web application that takes about two minutes to setup that links directly to over 3500 banking institutions and is aimed at making your personal finance an auto-pilot adventure

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Aimed at making your personal finance an auto-pilot adventure, Mint will auto categorize and classify all of your transactions so you can see how much you spend on gas, eating out, Starbucks, gadgets. It will even email and text you bill reminders, alerts such as over budget alerts or low balance alerts so you can avoid overdraft charges or over limit fees for your credit cards.

The idea for Mint.com was born out of Aaron’s frustration of managing his personal finances with Quicken and Microsoft Money.

For nearly eight years Aaron would spend around two or three hours every Sunday afternoon getting all of his accounts in the systems and up to date. Having to reconcile four or five credit cards, checking and savings accounts can be a real chore. It became way to difficult to pull all that information together and just see where is was all going with those programs. Everything was/is manual. There are no alerts, and they don’t work with you and your money to help you find ways to save!

The Web 2.0 Show officially supports Mint.com and all their efforts to help the world make managing their personal finances an auto-pilot adventure!

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byDaniel Aleksandersen added February 13, 2008
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I almost fell off my chair when I saw you had released a new show! What a pleasent surprise. ☺
byAdam Stacoviak added February 13, 2008
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HA! Daniel I hope you have a comfortable floor...cause that's gonna be your new home with all the new content we have planned. :P

Thanks for hanging in there with us!

FYI - We are planning to be at FOWA in Miami. Plus we have plans to release another show before we take off.

This is me at FOWA-Miami's CrowdVine.

byViktor added February 14, 2008
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Wow! This is very good news! I am a finance major and this should be able to help me much in the future.
byHumus added February 14, 2008
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Thank you for this brilliant post. This will greatly help people like me who wants to find a new way of managing my finances and really seeing what I can save.
bydmix added February 15, 2008
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Great interview But Mint only works in the USA.. not Canada, which is a shame. All thats left is single feature apps like expensr.
byYoutube added March 08, 2008
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I almost fell off my chair when I saw you had released a new show! What a pleasent surprise
byYoutube added March 08, 2008
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I almost fell off my chair when I saw you had released a new show! What a pleasent surprise
byJocke added March 11, 2008
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Too bad mint is a US only app... I'd love something like that here in Sweden :)
byYoutube added April 06, 2008
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Great interview But Mint only works in the USA.. not Canada, which is a shame.
byIsaac Patrick added April 17, 2008
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byYoutube added April 18, 2008
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thnak you very nice very binteresting
bytwotimesbaby added April 19, 2008
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borring.

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