Aaron Patzer was always one to stay on top of his personal finances. He would usually spend time on the weekend updating his account balances with traditional software programs like Quicken and Microsoft Money. There was only one problem: "Quicken wasn't quick," Patzer jokes.
He spent hours manually inputting numbers into spreadsheets and trying to categorize his spending activity. Patzer says he became increasingly frustrated by the amount of effort that these programs required for what he considered to be very basic -- and often unhelpful -- results.
So began his quest to build Mint.com, a tool that would make managing personal finances quick and easy. "I wanted something you could set up and that would get your finances organized in five minutes or less," he says. The version of Mint.com that Patzer eventually launched in September 2007 was exactly that -- user-friendly and required minimal effort.
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I must admit, I love mint.com and I use my mint.com app very often to help keep track of my finances.
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