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One of the noted strenghts of Mint, the new online money management tool, is to help you create goals with regards to money. Today, Theron Parlin, CTO of Geezeo believes he found what Mint’s corporate goals are. Geezeo and Mint aren’t direct competitors as Geezeo offers a wider variety of services including investment tracking.

Theron has posted on his blog displaying the image below and calling it, "douche baggery". He then continues:

"The founder of Mint and one of his developers decided they wanted to show us at Geezeo that not only do they have terrible taste in hats, but that pettiness and foul language towards a competing company is part of the silicon valley way. I don’t blame them for being upset, after all, with a smaller team and less resources we’ve been able to beat them to the punch in every aspect of what we do. Well, let’s be fair, I wouldn’t create a goal on Mint’s site because they don’t have goals. Come to think of it, they don’t have groups either, or support for investment accounts, or mortgages, or auto loans. "

Mint has received a variety of press since their launch and the big win at Techcrunch40, both positive and negative. On the positive side is TechCrunch authoring a bunch of posts about the service. On the negative side, there are posts including, "Mint thinks I am cheating on my wife".

My feeling about these apps remains the same, I am not comfortable sharing my ultra-sensitive logins with a brand new startup. While both apps talk about their superior security, will they be there for me when someone breaks into my account? And how will say WaMu respond when they find out that I have been accessing my WaMu account using a third-party service. Unfortunately Aaron completely ignored my questions on the TC comments thread about the above and about insurance for liability. I have also read a variety of reports that the savings that Mint recommends are not possible for that person either due to implied savings that Mint doesn’t recognize, location, etc.

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