No Checkbook, No Problem

A story I wrote on personal finance start-ups–such as Mint,  Wesabe, Buxfer and Spendview–ran today on Dow Jones Newswires, then got picked up by the Associated Press.

Venture capitalists have been busy investing in personal-finance Web start-ups, attempting to tap into a new generation of consumers who have never balanced a checkbook and increasingly view online money management as they would any other kind of Web service.

Read the rest of the story here or here.

What Would Simon Cowell Say?

Who says startups and VCs aren’t entertaining?  My blog post ran in the WSJ blog “Independent Street.”