The Boulevard to Financial Independence

By Matt

Over the last week, I’ve been talking with people about women’s economic security and retirement issues. It turns out that the government has developed quite a few programs, all of which I’ve never heard of until I went digging for information. Among the sites and resources that seem to be most valuable:
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By Matt

I was just going over my notes from some discussions I’ve had with a behavioral economist at MIT and I thought there are some key points on retirement planning that are worth sharing. Since Boulevard R’s mission is to help motivate consumers to get on track for retirement, the more widely this latest research gets out (this same professor at MIT is working on a similar, non-commercial application of what we are creating), the better for everyone.

Some key concepts and take-aways:
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By Matt

This week I had a really inspiring conversation with Jason from Wesabe. He was very open about how they have been successful and how they’ve connected with the community of users who are active in personal finance. When we were talking, he mentioned that the blog post he wrote on what holds people back from getting their financial house in order really catalyzed interest in what they were doing. I went back and re-read it and it reminded me of a Mintel research paper I also re-read recently.

Their argument goes like this:

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By Matt

Today the team spent the day at an “un-conference” here in San Francisco that was put on for startups by Sun and others. There were some interesting sessions, particularly one on bootstrapping a startup, led by one of the founders of Joyent.

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By Matt

In talking with a leading behavioral economist yesterday about online advice tools and his research, we got onto the topic of why people are in such bad shape when it comes to retirement preparedness.

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