John Paczkowski

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TGIO: Mint Wins TechCrunch40

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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  • http://allthingsd.com/ John Lin

    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.

  • http://allthingsd.com/ Bill Bucy

    I 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.

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