If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model,… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code. — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it.… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess,… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA. — Aaron Patzer Copy Share
