Tag Archives: start up

07/10/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

You’re Never Too Big–DropBox Drops the Ball

By Ben Kepes

I spend a bunch of time talking to different vendors about their products and services – having done what I do for a few years now it’s interesting to see how companies that I knew when they were tiny 3 person start ups start to act once they’ve got hundreds

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19/10/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Content is King, For New and Established Businesses

By Ben Kepes

A post by Bob Warfield got me thinking the other day. The crux of the post was that, for all startups, there is a very important role that needs to be filled and that is the role that ensures that high quality content gets created. Clearly, in the case of

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22/10/2008 Posted in Business, Design, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Building Online Communities

By Ben Kepes

The latest issues of Start-Up magazine is out and it includes a feature article I wrote about building online communities. It’s a subject close to my heart and one which I’m currently involved in with a (slightly) stealth project. The article can be seen here. In it I look at

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30/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, Strategy 1 Comment

A start-up reflects

By Ben Kepes

Billflo is an app to create, manage and email invoices. My attention was drawn to Billflo by their CEO who commented on one of my posts. I’m looking forward to meeting up with them in San Francisco next week, and discussing their plans for the business. Outside of that they

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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