San Francisco, California–based Wells Fargo is a financial services company that offers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance services throughout the United States. With 270,000 employees working in more than 80 businesses nationwide, Wells Fargo has come a long way over the past 160 years. Always moving forward, like the stagecoach that
By Guest Author Bob Walsh [Bob’s interview with Aaron Patzer, founder and CEO of Mint.com, continues with a discussion of the company’s funding and how it tackled the security issue. For more information, see Bob’s new book, “The Web Startup Success Guide”, which will be published on July 22.] Bob: OK, let’s talk more about money.
By Guest Author Bob Walsh [Bob Walsh begins a series of excerpts from his new book, “The Web Startup Success Guide”, with a case study of personal finance startup Mint.com and an interview with the company’s founder and CEO, Aaron Patzer.] Bob: Let’s start with how you decided that Mint.com was something you wanted to
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand experience consultancy. Over these past few weeks, we’ve taken a quick look at: (1) the core value proposition behind money management (2) a market landscape analysis of online personal finance services, and (3) opportunities to improve the user experience and engage
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
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
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
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