Finovate Pre-Conference Cocktail Party

Tonight I mixed and mingled with many of the attendees and presenters of Finovate 2009. Finovate is like TechCrunch 50 for banking and investing and finance-related start-ups. I will be at the conference tomorrow for most of the day except for the hours I will be doing bookkeeping. It was good to see Jon and [...]

Mint.com Sold To Intuit For 170 Million

Wow!  News of Mint.com being sold to Intuit is a surprise to me when I read about it this morning. Mint.com recently got another of funding, so I didn’t expect that it would get gobbled up by Intuit.  Hopefully Mint will help Quicken be quicker and easier to use.

New Small Business Financial Software:Indinero

My friend Lee Semel just tweeeted about Indinero and I had to check it out. Indinero looks like a Mint.com for small businesses. Indinero creates software to help small businesses better track and manage their finances. Indinero aims to provide its users with instant insights into the finances of their companies, leading them to save [...]

Web 2 Point Dough: Cash, Xero and More

Xero, an online financial application that was founded in New Zealand, is now available in the US. You can try Xero for FREE for 30 days, and the service is available for as low as $29/month. Budget your money by using a Discover prepaid card for shopping. Hold on to your cash receipts, kids! In [...]

Web 2 Point Dough: iPhone App, Runway Project

Wise Up: Wi$eUp is a program designed for Generation X & Y women. Its goals are to promote financial security through online education and to encourage responsible saving habits for future retirement. No more password reset:  Clipperz is the one stop shop for storing all your passwords. iPhone App: Less Accounting now has an iPhone [...]

Web 2 Point Dough: Cheap Tax Review and Schedule C Simply

HR Block offers Second Look Review for only $29.  Second Look Review is a service that H&R will review your 2008, 2007 or 2006 tax returns to see if there are errors or deductions that could be taken. They will review your returns even if you did them with TurboTax. This is great so you [...]

Web 2 Point Dough: Mint.com, TwitPay and SXSWi

Mint has a free iPhone App that is now available for download.  You can check your bank and credit card balances and watch your investment performances. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can set your Mint.com alerts to come to your phone via SMS. Also, check out this article in the New York Times [...]

Online Invoicing Options: Harvest, Blinksale, Curdbee

Wow, you can learn a lot by casually reading your friend’s tweets.  Today I heard about Harvest, an online time tracking and invoicing application.  Many self-employed/freelancers are looking for a simple solution to do invoicing and keep up with their accounts receivable. Harvest has some cool bells and whistles like recurring invoices, expense tracking and [...]

Interview with Mint.com’s Founder, Aaron Patzer

I first heard about Mint, an online personal finance application, nearly a year ago when it was named “Best Presenting Company” at TechCrunch 40. This fall, Mint will be celebrating their one year anniversary, coming out of beta and rolling out a more robust investment management section on the site. Last week, I had the [...]

25 Online Tools for Business and Personal Finances

Wow! This list of personal finance budgeting and business accounting sites compiled by Mashable is great! I have only heard about five or six of these websites already, and I know that MoneyStrands is coming. (It is private beta now). Click through to check out the list. clipped from mashable.com There are a growing number [...]