After building most of Mint.com's prototype by mys... -Aaron Patzer

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 , Businessman
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Aaron Patzer is a successful businessman and entrepreneur, best known as the founder of the personal finance management platform, Mint.com. Patzer's innovative approach to financial technology revolutionized how individuals manage their finances, making it more accessible and user-friendly. His contributions to the fintech industry have had a significant impact on personal finance management.

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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...
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, an...
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 ans...
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 fi...
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 rea...
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and share...
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...
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, get...
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 outstandi...
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 se...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....