My (Fabulous) Date with Suze Orman

Mint’s CEO Aaron Patzer recently sat down with the larger-than-life personal finance guru Suze Orman to talk about all things money-related.You probably recognize her from CNBC, from Oprah, or because you’ve read one of her best selling books. Here’s what he learned.

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Mint Goes to the Webby Awards

Last week Mint’s lead designer Jason Putorti had the honor of representing Mint at the 13th Annual Webby Awards in New York City. He was there to accept two awards for Mint.com, one for Best Financial Services Website, and another, the People’s Voice award. Here’s his behind-the-scenes report.

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Start your day with Mint.com on MyYahoo!

Many Americans start each day on their personalized My Yahoo! homepage. Starting today, they can use our new Yahoo! application to keep an eye on their money and budgets right along with their email, weather reports, sports scores, and news streams. If you’re a My Yahoo user, please try out the app today!

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Helping Military Families With Their Finances

As we head into Memorial Day weekend and look forward to spending time with our friends and families, our thoughts go out to those in military families who are separated from their loved ones. While Mint.com can’t help much in bringing them physically closer, we can bring them financially together and reduce some of the stresses that money management places on them.

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Get your Mom on Mint.com for Mother’s Day

Most Moms already handle all of the household finances. If you use Mint.com, you already know how easy it makes managing your money. Flowers and chocolates don’t last. Give her a gift that will, a little of your time in getting her set up with Mint.com.

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Mint.com Nominated for a Webby

We’re passionate about good design around here so we’re especially thrilled to have been nominated for The 13th Annual Webby Awards in the Financial Services category. We are one of only five nominees in the category and we’re eligible for both the Webby Award and the Webby People’s Voice Award, where your voice counts. If we’ve made your financial life simpler, we hope you’ll consider voting for us!

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Mint.com Takes the Silver, Obama Takes the Gold

In late February, we learned that Mint.com was up for a 2009 Thomas Edison Award in the category of Lifestyle and Social Change for the work we’ve done helping over 1 million users manage their finances and save money. We were up against some heavy hitters - the iTunes App Store and the Obama Online Team. As it turned out, Mint.com took second place, losing to Obama. He’s the President so I guess I’m okay with that.

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Meet Our Millionth User

Meet our millionth user. Tami K, a 35-year-old married mother of two from Gresham, Oregon is learning to live within a budget, with the help of Mint.com. Tami manages a dental office and is also in charge of her family’s finances. Mint.com has changed the way she spends money.

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Mint Goes to the White House

Last week, I was invited by the Obama administration to the White House. With me were Evan Williams of Twitter, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, the founders of Method, Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen, Jessica Jackley of Kiva.org, and many more young business leaders.

See the previous post, “Obama Administration Seeks Economic Advice From Young Entrepreneurs” for the recommendations I made to the Obama administration. Here’s some more on what was discussed on Friday.

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Obama Administration Seeks Economic Advice From Young Entrepreneurs

Mint‘s founder, Aaron Patzer, was at the White House today to consult with top officials in the Obama administration. Patzer joined the founders of innovative Internet startups including CollegeHumor, Daily Candy, Kiva.org, Threadless, Twitter, and Zappos.com on March 6 for the summit.

Patzer went to the White House with a few ideas on how to revitalize the US economy by better supporting the innovation and productivity of small businesses. Mint has learned a lot through its experience as a fast moving startup in a slow moving economy. Here is some of what he shared with Obama’s economic team today.

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