Comments on: TechCrunch40 Session 5: Productivity & Web Apps

By: TC50: LearnVest Is A Personal Financial Guide For Women

TC50: LearnVest Is A Personal Financial Guide For Women — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:44:14 +0000

[...] personal finance education and help is crucial to anyone’s financial health. Mint.com, a former TechCrunch 40 company who won the top prize at the conference, has grown incredibly since its launch and was [...]

By: Kerpoof! You’re acquired! | Colorado Startups

Kerpoof! You’re acquired! | Colorado Startups — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:14:52 +0000

[...] pretty similar to my experience with Krista and her team. I spent some time helping them with their TechCrunch 40 (50? 80?) presentation in 2007, and was an occasional advisor to the company. My son Andrew was an early beta tester for [...]

By: Kerpoof Acquired By Disney

Kerpoof Acquired By Disney — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:53:58 +0000

[...] met Krista and her co-founders at a CSIA event and then again while they were gearing up for the 2007 TechCrunch 40. I gave them feedback on their presentation, started playing around with Kerpoof, and decided [...]

By: Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite | Blog YODspica Ltd

Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite | Blog YODspica Ltd — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:40:31 +0000

[...] a web-based creative design suite for children that launched at 2007’s TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were [...]

By: Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite | Kawink Blog

Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite | Kawink Blog — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:52:17 +0000

[...] a web-based creative design suite for children that launched at 2007’s TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were [...]

By: Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite

Disney Acquires Kerpoof’s Kid-Friendly Creative Suite — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:47:26 +0000

[...] a web-based creative design suite for children that launched at 2007’s TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were [...]

By: Dahc Williams

Dahc Williams — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:18:24 +0000

Outlook Track-It is my favorite outlook plugin/addon. the toolbar that it gives you actually flags emails for a follow up!

By: TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook And Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client | Zensible

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:19:09 +0000

[...] also use your social networks to assign information to each of your contacts. Xobni, a plugin that launched last year at TechCrunch40, has similar functionality, but it’s still only available for [...]

By: TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook And Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client » The Scripts Zone

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:45 +0000

By: TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook, Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client

TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook, Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:26:33 +0000

By: A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why? — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:03:47 +0000

[...] of August), but it is unexpected, and frankly, doesn’t make much sense. Since launching at TechCrunch40, Xobni has shown impressive growth and received widespread acclaim – Bill Gates demoed the service [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Lancement de la version complète de Orgoo prochainement

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:03:39 +0000

[...] société fut présentée à TechCrunch40 où elle souligna le besoin de regrouper en un seul endroit tous nos moyens de [...]

By: Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize

Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:37:39 +0000

[...] Mint presented its application this morning during Session 5, which was entitled “Productivity and Web Applications”. See our coverage of that session here. [...]

By: InsaneIdea » Blog Archive » Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

InsaneIdea » Blog Archive » Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:42:50 +0000

[...] with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that [...]

By: Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:49:59 +0000

By: NextLeap.net » Ideas I Love: Xobni

NextLeap.net » Ideas I Love: Xobni — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:58:27 +0000

[...] TechCrunch40 Conference [...]

By: Xobni: The Super Plugin For Outlook

Xobni: The Super Plugin For Outlook — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:04:34 +0000

[...] Anyone who depends on email to work, knows how surprisingly bad Outlook is when you get beyond about ten contacts; conversations easily become jumbled, and keeping contacts up to date can be a pain. Xobni’s Outlook plug-in solves these problems with a sidebar that automatically tracks contacts and organizes emails into fully searchable threaded conversations linked back to those people. They were a TechCrunch40 startup – see our coverage here. [...]

By: Orgoo featured at TechCrunch40 « FreeStyleDive

Orgoo featured at TechCrunch40 « FreeStyleDive — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:03:55 +0000

[...] the latest to add to my fast growing ‘Innovate.pk’ list is Orgoo, which was featured at TechCrunch40, a very highly respected annual Silicon Valley conference where 40 vigorously screened startups [...]

By: Clay Cook

Clay Cook — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01:02 +0000

absolutely loving Xobni – have been using for a week now.
I have been searching for a seriously good outlook plugin for ages.
Still not sure about their business model… ads (i hope not)… subscription (likely unfortunately).

By: iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki)

iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:37:09 +0000

Mint is clearly the best choice – I like the looks of App2You now but I’m not that interested in using the application. As for Mint, I think its future is rather promising, but there should be many more streams of income without detracting from personal privacy issues

By: MrP

MrP — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:03:10 +0000

I tried Mint yesterday after reading the TC post. When I saw the results, it looked very similar to two of my financial providers (Bank of America and Fidelity) already provide. Since I knew both these companies use Yodlee, I investigated further and found that Mint uses Yodlee. Mint mentions that they use Yodlee to say that they are secure and therefore they should be trusted. Here are my questions/comments:

1. Yodlee had its own moneycenter and I have an account as well with them. I hardly visit their site after I had set it up. Yodlee realized that the mass market is slow to adopt it and therefore has gone down the path of been offering private-labeled service of their’s through Insitutional companies for a while now. Why do I need Mint? What additional value does it add over what my bank and yodlee do already, other than a pretty site and a flash based graph.

2. They also mention patent pending categorizing technology – well I am not sure about that. Yodlee and as a result BoA/Fidelity provide the same. Is Mint referring to Yodlee’s IP as their IP?

By: Jason Berberich

Jason Berberich — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:17:30 +0000

Curious – why is my comment from September 18th, 2007 at 11:23 am still awaiting moderation?

By: TechCrunch40 Sponsor - Agoracom

TechCrunch40 Sponsor - Agoracom — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:59:27 +0000

Good morning to you all. In addition to Mint, we were also really impressed with Xobni during this session. I’ve been complaining for a while now that Outlook was far too slow and clunky, with no real upgrades made in years.

Xobni seemed like a dream come true. I loved the stats (mail received, mail sent, value, etc.) for each of my contacts, as well as, the fact that Xobni displays connections between contacts, recent messages with the contact and attachments all in 1 view. Very smart, intuitive and efficient.

Definitely going to download when I get back to Toronto and hope it lives us to the presentation.

Regards,
George Tsiolis
Founder
AGORACOM

By: fred

fred — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:42:10 +0000

Has anyone used both Wesabe and Mint? If so, how would you compare and contrast. Thanks!

By: AW

AW — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:41:17 +0000

Ouch, name collisions.

Mint, the web analytics program: http://haveamint.com/
Mint, the money manager: http://www.mint.com/

Mint (the web analytics app) seems pretty popular. Might have been a good idea to google any prospective names before finalizing their brandings. Not only are the names identical, both apps have the same smooth sleek style judging by screenshots.

Oh well — might work out well for them.