Bills.com

Infobox_Company
company_name = Bills.com, LLC.
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 2005
location = San Mateo, California, USA
industry = Internet, Financial services
key_people = Brad Stroh and Andrew Housser, Co-Founders and CEOs; Ethan Ewing, President | company_slogan = "Find. Learn. Save."
homepage = [http://www.bills.com/ www.bills.com] |

Bills.com provides consumers with information and interactive tools dealing with personal finance topics, including credit cards, insurance, debt relief assistance, mortgage loans, student loans and other personal loans. [ cite web|url=http://www.bills.com/media_kit/ |title=Line of Business |accessdate=2007-09-22 ] The company is one of the five divisions of Freedom Financial Network. [ [http://freedomfinancialnetwork.com Freedom Financial Network] ]

Company co-founders and co-CEOs, Andrew Housser and Brad Stroh, were named Northern California finalists in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. [cite news | first=EditorsChoice | last= | coauthors= | title=Should You Stay or Go? Bills.com's Tips Let Workers Compare New Job to Old Career | date=2007-08-14 | publisher=PRWEB | url =http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9140&Itemid=9 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-09-22 | language = ] The company, based in San Mateo, California, was named one of the best places to work in the Bay Area by the "San Francisco Business Times", where it was No. 5 in the "Small Business" category. [ [http://www.bills.com/san-francisco-business-times-names-billscom-to-best-places-to-work-list-press-release/ Bills.com Named to ‘Best Places to Work’ List] ]

History

The Bills.com domain name and related trademarks were acquired in December 2005 for US$ 964,500 by Freedom Financial Network. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title="Bills.com domain name and trademarks sold for $964,500" | date=2006-04-19 | publisher= | url =http://domainsmagazine.com/Domains_3/Domain_550.shtml | work =Domains Magazine | pages = | accessdate = 2007-09-27 | language = ] This price for a domain name with no underlying business was the second highest in 2005 (the most expensive in 2005 was fish.com for $1.02 million). It also is on the top 25 all-time most expensive domain name list. [ cite web|url=http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/topixcom-cracks-top-25-list-of-domain-sales/ |title=Topix.com Cracks Top 25 List of Domain Sales |accessdate=2007-09-22 |last=Kesmodel |first=David |date=2007-03-19 ]

Ask Bill

At "Ask Bill", Bills.com has a free forum where consumers can ask questions about a variety of financial topics which are answered by Stanford Business School graduates and other experts in their respective financial fields.

Videos

The company posts educational videos on various personal finance related topics, on its website and other websites such as Youtube and Facebook.

Awards / Recognition

*Entrepreneur magazine names Bills.com #3 in the Hot 100, fastest growing companies in America. [ cite web|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/hot100/details/20083.html |title=Entrepreneur magazine |accessdate=2008-08-26 ]

*Bills.com is No. 17 on Inc. magazine's Top 100 Financial Services Companies list. [ cite web|url=http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/lists/financial-services-companies.html?o=0&c=200802570 |title=Inc. 500 |accessdate=2008-08-26 ]

*Bills.com Founders named to 40 Under 40 list in Silicon Valley. [ cite web|url=http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/05/19/focus1.html |title=Silicon Valley Business Times article on 40 Under 40 award recipients |accessdate=2008-09-09 ]

*Recipient for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Award in Northern California. [ cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS162361+23-Jun-2008+PRN20080623 |title=Reuters article on Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 award recipients |accessdate=2008-08-26 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.sbnonline.com/Local/Article/15001/80/0/Debted_to_serve.aspx Article about Bills.com Founders in "Smart Business"]
* [http://www.bills.com/iq/ Bills IQ - Financial Fitness Calculator]
* [http://www.youtube.com/billsdotcom Personal finance related videos on Youtube]
* [http://www.bills.com/videos/ Bills.com Self Help Videos]
* [http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/08/20/smallb4.html Profile of Bills.com founder]
* [http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0511/feature_finance.shtml Bills.com founders' article in Stanford Business School magazine]