Student loans are one of my personal finance pain points. Every time I try to get ahead on them, something comes up and I get behind again. It must be hard for people like me who are self-employed. Today I hear about the launch of Smarter Bank which is an online bank that helps you [...]
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Take Five: Social Media Interns, Fat Wallet, Hire Lite, Failure is Good
August 11th, 2011 
Nichelle Did you get and/or looking to hire a social media intern? Read these tips on managing them. Is your wallet fat? Slim it down and spend less money. I really like this article. Nine reasons why failure is not fatal. Looking to hire a developer, programmer? Looking for a job? Check out HireLite. Site I [...]
Blippy RIP?
May 20th, 2011 Nichelle When I first heard about Blippy, I was doubtful about if people would use it. People may be comfortable sharing their location, what they eat or drink, but what they purchase is a different story. Also, an app should be solving a problem and since wasn’t used as a budget or personal finance app, then [...]
Writing About Your Business’ Failure Helps You, Helps Others
January 31st, 2011 Nichelle Wesabe, one of the first Web 2.0 personal finance applications, shut down last summer. I used it back in the day to help with bookkeeping since it was easier when importing bank transactions than older versions of Quickbooks. Then Mint and Geezeo came and for a while it was a three man race. Eventually Mint.com [...]
