This is the followup to our interview with Thrive CEO and Founder, Avi Karnani and Lead Scientist, Matt Wallaert. In our first installment, which you can read here, we talked to them about their work in financial literacy, competition with popular money management site, Mint and how they differ from other financial service companies. In this installment, we’ll find out more on behavioral budgeting and how it works, and how Thrive is working to make banking a better service industry.

The emergence of summer means many things, one of which is lots of free activities. Summer in NYC is filled with many a bargain pleasure, including free outdoor kayaking, movies, concert series and physical activities. So instead of just focusing on our past stories, we decided to spotlight a few other sites as well that focus on free and budget living information. A few of our favorite posts are below.

We recently sat down with Thrive (a free online personal finance manager) co-founder, Avi Karnani and Lead Scientist, Matt Wallaert to talk about Thrive’s offering to the rapidly evolving world of personal finance. Since we covered a lot of ground, we’re going to publish this interview in two parts: the first of which is below.