http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/04/16/that-was-my-idea/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:06:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/04/16/that-was-my-idea/#comment-1350 Anonymous Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:01:00 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1457#comment-1350 Hi Mark, I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with BillMonk's founders. You can listen to it here: http://www.mrmarkets.com/2006/07/billmonk_create.html It will be interesting to watch the "social money" category develop. Services like BillMonk can really reduce ambiguity in bill paying amongst friends in an easy way. Thanks, Doug Hi Mark,
I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with BillMonk's founders. You can listen to it here:
http://www.mrmarkets.com/2006/07/billmonk_create.html
It will be interesting to watch the “social money” category develop. Services like BillMonk can really reduce ambiguity in bill paying amongst friends in an easy way.
Thanks,
Doug

]]> http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/04/16/that-was-my-idea/#comment-1349 Anonymous Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:27:01 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1457#comment-1349 Hi, I co-founded BillMonk. Thanks for writing about us! I swear, we never evesdropped on you! Really. :) Both the lending library and the social money aspects of BillMonk are ideas that a couple of people have told us they also had. I guess the problem of tracking borrowing is such a clear case where computers can solve an everyday issue. I'd like to think that BillMonk's main value is that it provides an easy and friendly interface for doing so. As for the friendship-killer issue... we want to help friends, not to hurt them! If using BillMonk is adding an unnatural level of strain due to everyone penny-pinching, don't use it! Most people use the shared-bill functionality to evenly divide a bill - we do the math. (You can be exact if needed, of course). We have received a ton of love-letters from users, especially from roommates, saying that the ability to be precise has defused the everyday stresses of worring about fairness. Hi, I co-founded BillMonk. Thanks for writing about us! I swear, we never evesdropped on you! Really.
Both the lending library and the social money aspects of BillMonk are ideas that a couple of people have told us they also had. I guess the problem of tracking borrowing is such a clear case where computers can solve an everyday issue. I'd like to think that BillMonk's main value is that it provides an easy and friendly interface for doing so.
As for the friendship-killer issue… we want to help friends, not to hurt them! If using BillMonk is adding an unnatural level of strain due to everyone penny-pinching, don't use it! Most people use the shared-bill functionality to evenly divide a bill - we do the math. (You can be exact if needed, of course). We have received a ton of love-letters from users, especially from roommates, saying that the ability to be precise has defused the everyday stresses of worring about fairness.

]]> http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/04/16/that-was-my-idea/#comment-1348 Tyler Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:22:19 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1457#comment-1348 BTW Mark, it's been about 5 or so years, but do you have that VHS tape of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story I lent you? BTW Mark, it's been about 5 or so years, but do you have that VHS tape of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story I lent you?

]]>