Archive for July, 2010

BankSimple: NYC-Based Online Bank

I heard about Bank Simple last fall.  The website is a simple, stripped-down site that lets you bank. From NYConvergence: This fall, BankSimple plans to serve an initial 10,000 customers, giving members a single card that functions like a debit card, while being linked to a small credit line. Customers can get cash from 50,000 [...]

Intuit’s Second Annual Entrepreneur Day is August 16

Intuit is hosting its second annual Entrepreneur Day on August 16 at their headquarters in Mountain View, California. The deadline for submission is Friday July 16.  Last year, Intuit organized the first Entrepreneur Day where 40 companies met with senior business leaders and propose how they could collaborate with Intuit to develop new products and [...]

Credit Cards: You Can Live Without Them

I don’t own a credit card, and I am fine.  Today, I read this post from fashion maven Gala Darling about she lives without a credit card, which makes it easier for to only spend what she earns. Gala says: The fact of the matter is that I only recently moved to America, & as [...]

Bookmark This: Lifehacker’s Personal Finance

Lifehacker has lots of content on how to be more productive,  how to use technology and gadgets and even to how to cook things.  One thing I love about Lifehacker are their posts on personal finance. You can find all of them at http://lifehacker.com/tag/personalfinance/. Recent topics include setting up a CD Ladder for savings and [...]