by John Paczkowski
Posted on September 18, 2007 at 8:05 PM PT
Of the 40 companies who presented at TechCrunch40 over the past two days, the judges determined Mint to be the best and awarded the online financial-management service the conference’s $50,000 grand prize. Not all that surprising, really. Chatter in the conference lobby had the company pegged as a favorite to win early on and, let’s face it, the competition wasn’t exactly fierce …
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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I’ve been a beta tester on Mint.com for about a week or so and it is a very good for a beta product, doing a great job of tracking savings and spending. I’d love for Mint to add in investments (401k, IRA, stocks, options, etc…) so I could get a complete financial picture.
Posted by John Lin at September 19th, 2007 at 10:38 amI hope Mint uses the $50K to add some servers. First it wouldn’t connect to my accounts and now I can’t even log in. I’m willing to bet it’s because of heavy traffic spawned by coverage of the event, but they should have thought of that.
I wonder how many potential users they are losing through their inability to deliver the product.
Posted by Bill Bucy at September 19th, 2007 at 10:38 am