John Prendergast is the co-founder and CEO of Blueleaf. He serves on the board of oneforty.com, the social business software hub and WiredTiger, a developer cloud optimized databases. He is also the founder and organizer of the Lean Startup Circle Boston. In addition to his decade and a half as an entrepreneur, John spent nearly a decade as an investment banker and financial advisor.
One of the reasons we founded Blueleaf is that it’s simply too much work to really understand your money and manage it properly. We’re not talking about your day to day spending, though that’s not easy. We’re talking about the long-term, about how small things today make a big difference down the road and about how seemingly big things today may not be so important as the media hype machine may lead you to believe. We’re setting out to change that by making money obvious, by telling you “this means that” in plain language, and providing complex information in simple visualizations so that you can really understand where you’re headed and what you need to do at a glance. Allocation – teaching the lowly pie graph a new language Allocation – How much money do you have in stocks, bonds Read More…