Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, in terms of your chronology, what came in what order? You were doing the recordings—these webinars were a key first step.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: Early Growth Financial Services, San Francisco, California

Not everyone is good at accounting and finance, and as a company begins to grow, keeping track of finances becomes a job that requires more than one or two people to complete. That’s where companies like Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) come in. Early Growth Financial services and its more than 30 employees provide companies

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 6)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. 3Strand’s Concept Features for Wesabe: Support Groups and Scorecard Trying to get your finances under control can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming process. Throw in the worst economic downturn Generation Y has ever faced, and you’ve got

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 5)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re continuing with our redesign of Wesabe.com, a money management/social networking site. Shown below is our redesign concept for Wesabe’s member homepage. Catering to Generation Y’s needs, our design approach is to make the homepage

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 4)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. These past few weeks, we have pretty much been living and breathing money management in our quest to find ways to improve the design of the user experience. Now it’s time to choose the lucky website to be

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 3)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re reviewing three more money management websites: Finicity/Mvelopes, Quicken and PNC Virtual Wallet. Finicity/Mvelopes Overview: This company is okay at everything but not special in any way. It charges you $13.20 per month (which is

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 2)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Last week, we proposed that money management websites (e.g. Quicken) could use a serious design overhaul. To start that design process, we’ll take a sweep of the market landscape. This week we’re reviewing three popular websites: Mint,

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Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis

Amidst the financial crisis, some 40,000 of New York’s 185,700 Wall Street jobs could be lost. The bailout is not exactly offering a great deal of confidence to the financial markets. We are all losing a lot of money. Fear runs through the system like a chilling shiver in the middle of the night. In

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