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Concur CEO on SaaS

October 2, 2007

Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Uncategorized, Web x.0

Smoothspan had a three part series interviewing the CEO of Concur. Some great quotes; “SaaS accelerates sales. You can’t argue with the numbers. Cycles are shorter in every segment. The reason is lower up-front capital commitment. The Customer is…

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Another one (maybe) bites the dust….

October 2, 2007

Business, Manufacturing, New Zealand

News this morning that Norsewear may be sold and moved offshore. Now while i understand the factors that fource a brand to consider a move to offshore manufacturing, I do somewhat cringe when there website says things like “We’re…

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ConnectNZ/IOD event…

October 2, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy

An interesting event this morning. Pul Hargreaves from DataCom gave a presentation. Some salient facts; Ben trading for 42 years $400mill turnover 2100 staff Still privately It’s refreshing to hear that there are some other options to either public…

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More Telecom moaning…

October 1, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand

Computerworld had this interesting article this morning. There are two players; Gen-i, Telecom’s IT services business unit and Axon, Gen-i’s direct competitor. It seems that Axon is still concerned about the practicalities of the recently announced operational separation of…

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Xero operating update….

October 1, 2007

Business, Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Web x.0

In accordance with the expectations put upon a publicly listed company, Xero has just released its operating update. It’s worth reading for all start-ups and SaaS players, if for no other reason than to see the level of professionalism…

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Microsoft MD leaving….

October 1, 2007

Business, IT, New Zealand

News that Microsoft New Zealand managing director Helen Robinson will be leaving MS at the end of this month. So which if the hi-growth companies wil she go to, or will it be a fresh startup, or perhaps a…

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PlanHQ DEMO presentation….

October 1, 2007

Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS

PlanHQ is a SaaS business planning, execution and reporting tool. For those who haven’t seen it, I’m posting about the PlanHQ presentation to DEMO07 for two reasons; PlanHQ is a company to watch, doing good things and executing well…

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Geoff Ross goes Hyper…..

October 1, 2007

Business, Design, New Zealand, Strategy

And I thought Geoff was already as hyper as humanly possible. Founder of 42below and uber marketing guru, Geoff Ross has taken a “substantial, equity stake in hyperfactory. The hyperfactory is a technology/marketing company currently known for it’s mobile…

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The importance of advice…..

October 1, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0

I came across this post the other day which, for those of you who can’t be bothered reading it, discusses the steps needed in order to build a good board for a startup. Next week I’ll be attending the…

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Paying to NOT see web adds……

September 29, 2007

Business, IT, Strategy, Web x.0

Over on Smoothspan is this interesting post mooting the concept of allowing facebook customers to pay to NOT receive inline adds. I haven’t double checked Bob’s maths but what he states is that; Assuming 20% of people opted for…

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