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Initial thoughts on another SaaS accounting package

June 21, 2007

Business, Design, IT, New business, Strategy

Following on from my previous post about the breadth of product offerings in the SaaS accounting space, this morning I’ve been having a play with SaaSu’s NetAccounts and I have to say that it’s nice. Clean and tidy with…

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The Accounting SaaS space is getting busier…

June 20, 2007

Business, Design, IT, My businesses

Lance Wiggs posted about a SaaS accounting service he found in the states – Lance’s post can be seen here. I always said that I had concerns about the revenue expectations articulated in the Xero IPO and whether or…

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It all comes down to ambition…

June 17, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Rod Oram’s comment in today’s Sunday Star Times mentioned the dearth of ambition evident in the business leaders in our country. He also commented on the results of his own informal survey of business excellence, commiserating in the fact…

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International ideas incubator????

June 14, 2007

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

A very brave post here. In New Zealand are we selling ourselves short and becoming the low-cost innovation locale for other countries? Only to lose the innovations through acquisitions? And how much value do serial entrepreneurs really bring the…

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New Xero CFO….

June 14, 2007

Business, New business, New Zealand

Just heard that Xero have appointed Paul Gardener as CFO. Paul was formerly at Phitek and would seem to have the clout needed to scale a publicly listed company. Hamish Edwards, founder and former CFO, will now fill the…

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Governance for hi-tech businesses….

June 13, 2007

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

I had a meeting today with some of the players at Connect New Zealand. Among the topics discussed was the need to increase the quality of governance of hi-tech businesses, particularly start-ups. Given my association with Economic development agencies,…

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Cool….

June 12, 2007

Branding, Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy

Sony yesterday filed a patent application for a phone with gaming functionality. Seems Sony is smarting that the Apple iphone is getting all the hype at the moment and came up with something of their own. I wonder if…

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Bollard really really has balls…..

June 12, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Strategy

News that the Reserve Bank yesterday intervened in the currency market and sold a bunch of NZ dollars in order to bring down the “unjustifiably high” level of the Kiwi dollar. I’m not entirely sure that the move will…

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Incubatorial excellence…

June 11, 2007

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

Vincent Heeringa with another of his well thought out articles here. As I’ve commented in the IdeaLog blog, Israel would be a good model for NZ to look at. It’s a country similarly lacking in natural resources and is…

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You have to laugh…

June 10, 2007

Business, Governance, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Click here. Well I reckon its funny anyway!

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