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Topic: Intuit Quicken

  
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Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic

Mint is already aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. Now the newly-acquired company is planning to sell that data on a case-by-case basis.READ»

Easy Money

Aaron Patzer is taking on Quicken by merging personal finance with Web 2.0. Can he get twentysomethings to be smart with their cash? READ»

Conspiracy of Change

How do you overthrow a successful company? Intuit, one of the world's great software firms, was on the verge of losing its leadership position. Until it vowed to reinvent itself.READ»

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Health 2.0

As the quest to improve America's health-care system continues, the tech crowd is ready to offer its own prescription: Apply the fundamentals of Web 2.0 (consumer-focused tools; crowd-sourced, minable data; robust community) to the ...READ»

Case Studies

You asked us for real examples of how people keep the business side of Me, Inc., running smoothly. So here's some sound advice (and nitty gritty details) from other free agents.READ»

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Mint Sells to Intuit for $170 Million, Will It Wither on the Vine?

Writing about personal finance systems we once likened Intuit's Quicken to Old Spice and spiky start-up Mint to Axe Bodyspray. Now Mint's success is being bought up by Intuit--will the smell of Old Spice overwhelm all else? The ...READ»

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Sneak Peek

What: Intuit's Quicken for Health Care When: Mid-2007 Intuit wants to kill the confusing medical bill--and, even better, the supremely confusing "this is not a bill" explanation of medical benefits. Quicken for Health Care is the ...READ»

Congratulations, You're Promoted (Now What?)

The transition from team player to the leader can make -- or break -- your career. Here's Fast Company's six-point leadership guide.READ»

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Designing Business; Businessing Design

Before I used computer-aided design to create products, I had pencils. Before I had pencils, I had Legos. Before Legos, crayons. Before crayons, blocks. And with these tools, I have always been a designer. The act of exploring ...READ»

5 Travel Connections

5 ways to improve your Travel ease.READ»

5 Steps to Jumpstart Your Startup

The Net can help you uncover new opportunities, offer solutions to a crisis, and save you money.READ»

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PDAs

Whatever happened to personal digital assistants (PDAs)? You remember -- those devices that turned your wonderful penmanship into gibberish, cost nearly as much as a new computer, and still couldn't store a spreadsheet.READ»

Listener Runner-up: Intuit

Intuit has many ears, open to the Voice of the Customer.READ»

Illustration by lorenzo Petrantoni
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Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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MINT   |  3 comments

Mint's Founder Gets Control of Intuit's Personal Finance Division

Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»

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Y2K Problem? What Y2K Problem?

The Y2K computer bug will be your problem if you PC doesn't know what year it is. Don't waste time waiting for your company's techies to bail you out. Here's how to help yourself.READ»

Feedback: Quicken Charts Never Lie

Intelligence and common sense are sometimes divorced from each other, and common sense - like a Stussy T-shirt - never goes out of fashion. The names have been removed to protect the guilty. I remember meeting with a partner in an ...READ»

Feedback: Become the Person People Work For

I grew up in northern Virginia, about 10 miles from AOL headquarters. At age 15, I taught myself Java and C++. At age 16, during two summers, I worked for the now-dead boom startup Tidalwave Telephone (at various times also named ...READ»

Ten Commandments for Success on the Net

The new rules for success.READ»

Never Do What You Can Delegate

Your job as a team leader is to provide the tools, motivation, and direction the team needs to do the work itself.READ»

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How to Shop for a Palmtop

Now that computing's gone palm-size, the question is this: Which palm's on top? Here's a handy guide to the top of the palms - and add-ons to make them handier.READ»

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Return to Spender

While in an airport over the weekend, making a connecting flight, I saw a promotional stand for a product called NeatReceipts. A small, 12-ounce scanner scans up to six receipts a minute, and the accompanying software sizes and crops ...READ»

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Financial 2.0 Services Growing, Cocky: "Banks Are Evil" Proclaims Mint CEO

    People around the world are radically changing their attitudes towards saving and spending, and alternative financial services sites are reaping the benefits. That was the message from the young ...READ»

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Are You on Craig's List?

Craig Newmark has organized a community whose members include some of the Web's most influential people. Here is his manual for (virtual) community organizers.READ»

Feedback: Blame It on the MBA's

A bunch of MBA's thought that people could get rich by some new magical method that did not involve hard work, creativity, and dedication. A group of people had a mindset that they were smarter and better than the rest of the world ...READ»