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Aaron Patzer of Mint.com created a free online personal finance management system for the everyday person who wants a simple way to manage their finances.  Mint has since seen massive mainstream success, was bought recently by Quicken, and now continues to grow doubling nearly every several months with no sign of slowing down.  Aaron quit his job when he was 25 to venture into entrepreneurship full time.  The journey was long and hard, but he came out of the other end of the tunnel as a successful entrepreneur.  This past Thursday, Aaron Patzer did a Q&A session with online participants answering everything and anything with regards to how he started his business, how he promoted it, and many other great questions any budding entrepreneur could greatly benefit from hearing.  So pull up a chair and take the next hour to get the REAL answers  to all those questions you’ve had about starting your own business.  Check it out here:

Mint.com is a free personal finance web-based service, which offers money management services similar to that of the popular Quicken program. Mint has quickly become known to many on and off the web for it’s simple and yet still powerful interface. This week in the spotlight we take a look at young entrepreneur Aaron Patzer, who created Mint and just more recently sold it to the makers of Quicken for a cool $170 million all within a 3 year window. More »