Archive for April, 2009
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Live from Finovate Startup – Fourth Demo Session
Okay this isn’t so live… it’s a day after recap of the fourth session… nonetheless, here it is: HomeATM – Hardware prevents keystroke spying and other hacks – useful for processing transactions even more securely. I like Paypal so I don’t see the value in extra hardware. Maybe if the system was broken I’d want [...]
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Live from Finovate Startup – Third Demo Session
I’m blogging live from Finovate today. Here’s an update from the third demo session: Mint – Releasing Financial Fitness… get a financial score based on how close you adhere to 5 personal finance principles over the last month: 1) Know your money 2) Spend less than earn 3) Use credit and debt wisely 4) Investing [...]
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Live from Finovate Startup – Second Demo Session
I’m blogging live from Finovate today. Here’s an update from the second demo session: Know Before you Apply – Seems exactly like
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Live from Finovate Startup – First Demo Session
I’m blogging live from Finovate today. Here’s an update from the first demo session: Expensify – “Expense reports that don’t suck…” Gets all information from a credit card import and can produce an IRS tax-compatible receipt. Import from 92% of the US credit cards… Fairly impressive reporting. kaChing – KaChing follows fund managers and reports [...]
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Live from Finovate Startup 2009 – Introduction
Like last year’s Live Blogging from Finovate, I’ll be giving it another shot this year… and by “this year”, I really mean today. For those not familiar with Finovate Startup, it’s a convention of startup companies around banking and finance held in San Francisco. Finovate Startup has always interested me. Other bloggers have asked me [...]
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Save Money with Fast Food Value Menus
I have to admit it… I eat at fast food restaurants. I’ve tried to avoid them in an attempt to be more healthy, but time and again I find myself gravitating towards food that is fast, cheap, and tastes good. (My taste buds are not the most refined.) As one might expect some of the [...]
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NFL Draft (And Some Personal Finance Links)
This was a big weekend in Boston sports. With the Red Sox – Yankees playing and Celtics and Bruins seasons still going on… all the teams had some logs in the fire. Oh, I forgot to mention the Patriots. They entered the draft with 11 picks. They proceed to wheel and deal. They traded down [...]
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Investing in… Websites?
Every now and again, traffic growth on Lazy Man and Money hits a plateau. I’m not overly concerned about that for two reasons: I rarely try to write for traffic. Okay, every now and again I try to write a sensational title for fun and amusement. However, in general I write whatever is on my [...]
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Need Money Epic Fail
I love Fail Blog When I discovered it, I lost about 4 straight hours of my life (so click through after you read this post). I just find the pictures hilarious. Earlier this week I was at Taco Bell. The receipt struck me as borderline funny enough to submit to Fail Blog. Rather than risk [...]
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Four Lazy Ways to Save the Environment
It’s Earth Day and I’d be remiss if I didn’t take a minute to recognize that. While I typically focus on financial topics here, there are other important issues I care about. The environment is one such issue. All the money in the world is worthless if there’s no world left. I know that’s a [...]
