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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 might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
~ Aaron Patzer
About
After
Anyone
Audience
Because
Broader
Building
Connections
Everyone
Fear
Idea
Knew
Make
Might
Mint
Most
Myself
Only
Prototype
Provide
Right
Right Track
Solution
Someone
Steal
Sure
Talked
Than
Track
Way
Will
You
Your
Yourself
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At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
~ Aaron Patzer
Across
Age
Because
Business
Caribbean
Clients
Conduct
Could
Country
Development
Had
Internet
Knew
Netherlands
None
Phone
Started
Web
Whom
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
~ Aaron Patzer
Developed
Financial
Five
Given
How
How Much
Mint
Much
New
Our
Patents
Present
Product
Save
Situation
System
Technology
User
Ways
Would
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Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.
~ Aaron Patzer
Another
Be Careful
Belongs
Careful
Companies
Company
Feature
Here
Like
Out
Pick
Problem
Real
Real Problem
Really
Start
Stay
Twitter
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Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.
~ Aaron Patzer
Access
Accounts
Alert
Bank
Because
Cards
Credit
Credit Cards
Detect
Email
Faster
Fraud
Message
Mint
Patterns
Send
Spending
Text
Than
Then
Unusual
Users
Your
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Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.
~ Aaron Patzer
Around
Before
Both
Fact
Features
Forever
Functionality
Hour
Hours
In Fact
Investment
Learn
Loaded
Maintain
Microsoft
Money
Powerful
Set
Taxes
Too
Took
Tools
Up
User
Week
Were
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
~ Aaron Patzer
About
Alone
Banking
Before
Calculate
Carefully
Grow
Had
Knew
Make
Market
Microsoft
Million
Million People
Mint
Money
Online
Over
People
Potential
Purchased
Size
Starting
Sure
Using
Were
Who
Years
You
Your
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
~ Aaron Patzer
Actually
Ad
Advantage
After
Anything
Area
Because
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Deals
E-Commerce
Feel
Go
Healthcare
I Feel
I Feel Like
Invest
Like
Many
Mobile
Networks
Other
People
Players
Simply
Smart
Smart People
Social
Space
Tend
Things
Those
Where
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
~ Aaron Patzer
Always
Computer
Computer Science
Degree
Duke
Electrical
Engineering
Goal
Good
Got
Inventions
Inventor
Knew
Life
Needed
Out
Problem
Really
Science
Thought
Turns
Wanted
You
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
~ Aaron Patzer
Able
Also
Bulb
Consider
Develop
Distribution
Edison
Electric
Entire
Entrepreneur
First
Great
Grid
He
Hero
His
Invented
Inventions
Inventor
Just
Life
Light
Light Bulb
Masses
Myself
Outstanding
Power
Real
Real Life
Second
Sell
System
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Who
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
~ Aaron Patzer
Adult
Always
Employee
Engineer
Entrepreneur
First
Foremost
IBM
Inventor
Jobs
Myself
Never
Order
Start-Up
Then
Thought
Were
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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 a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
~ Aaron Patzer
Activity
Alcohol
Anything
Anything Else
Big
Big Difference
Buying
Culture
Difference
Eat
Else
Food
Going
I Think
Know
Lot
Make
Money
More
More Than Anything
Much
Never
Our
Out
Part
Restaurants
Saved
Social
Sounds
Than
Think
Ton
Too
Too Much
Weird
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copy
I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.
~ Aaron Patzer
Engineers
Everyone
Here
How
Investors
Make
Market
Mint
Money
Much
Old
Pitch
Place
Pretty
Problem
Same
Solve
Way
Young
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
~ Aaron Patzer
Answer
Beat
Been
Bodybuilding
Class
Disaster
Getting
Got
I Think
Me
Only
People
Pleased
Questions
Reason
Respect
Saved
Sports
Things
Think
Track
Up
Were
Whatever
Would
Wrestling
You
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
~ Aaron Patzer
Accountants
Could
Five
Less
Mint
Minutes
Now
People
Set
Something
Spend
Ten
Ten Minutes
Than
Tool
Up
Want
Wanted
Week
Who
You
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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 multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
~ Aaron Patzer
Balancing
Build
Checking
Comprehensive
Computer
Does
Finances
Financial
Generation
Giving
Insights
Institutions
Just
Mint
Mobile
Multiple
My Generation
People
Phone
Quick
Spend
Tablet
Time
Tool
User
Want
Wanted
Websites
Who
design
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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
~ Aaron Patzer
Ate
Carbohydrates
Drink
Eat
Fit
Food
Grow
Guy
High
High School
I Think
Just
Kind
Live
Many
Me
Most
Need
Opposite
Order
People
Proteins
School
Think
Used
Water
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I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
~ Aaron Patzer
About
Actually
Building
Businesses
Career
Computer
Computer Science
Currently
Degree
Duke
Electrical
Engineering
How
Myself
Number
Princeton
Put
School
Science
Started
Then
Through
Websites
design
copy
I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
~ Aaron Patzer
Australia
Been
Bit
Business
Canada
Deals
Doing
Expanding
Globally
Happen
Make
Mint
Much
New
New Zealand
Personally
Quite
Quite A Bit
Research
Spending
Them
Time
Zealand
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copy
If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
~ Aaron Patzer
Books
Finance
Literally
Look
Mean
Personal
Pretty
Real
Real Reason
Reason
Search
Simple
Written
You
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