I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel over the years, the vast majority of my relatives live there and I have a soft spot for the place, tortured and torturous though it is. I’m always staggered to see…
I see Xero has halved the cost of additional licences. That is for the second, third, fourth etc businesses that someone uses with Xero, the monthly subscription will be half that of the first. Herein lies some of the…
So… I’m a customer of the BNZ, have been for 30 odd years now. I run about 8 different bank accounts through them as well as credit cards and seven figures worth of borrowing – I guess that makes…
A few years ago, Campbell Gower, CEO of phil&teds, visited Cactus with some potential European distributors for our gear. Since then p&t has risen meteorically, they’re now selling in 2000 stores across dozens of countries, turning over a reported…
For those still unaware, Google is introducing Knol, a tool that allows people to create articles about distinct subject areas and post them on specialised, Google hosted pages. The difference between Knol and Wikipedia is that while Wikipedia relies…
I’m a firm believer in the ascendency of on-demand office productivity suites. Offerings from Google, Microsoft, Zoho and others are making the space kind of busy. I have to say that Zoho seems to be the pick of the…
Google has linked with apnfinda to create a director 2.0 service for New Zealand. Early days yet but it appears the servce will have the following functionality; directory listing for businesses view directory entries along with full mapping functionality…
The unreasonablemen had this post looking at a case study of a 1000 seat Salesforce implementation here in New Zealand. One of the most interesting comments was this one; …companies going through the process of buying CRM spend so…
When talking about employment within a hi tech company, people tend to focus on how great things are. Exciting work, good pay, stock options etc etc. An ebay listing by a somewhat disgruntled Salesforce employee would tend to suggest…
Watching my favourite youtube clip of the month, and some recent conversations I’ve had with regards idea pitching, led me to ask the following simple question; Is the great idea most important, or the ability to execute? I’ve always…