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  • QuickBooks for iPad–Well Executed, But it’s all About the Ecosystem

    May 24, 2013

    Business
    Customer, GoPayment, intuit, IOS, QuickBook, Small Business Web, techcrunch, twitter
     

    Recently Intuit introduced a new mobile version of its QuickBooks application. In the past when a legacy vendor introduced a mobile application, they tended to do so by stripping out much of the functionality of the full version and…

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  • Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

    August 30, 2012

    Business
    FreshBook, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, Invoice, Mike McDerment, quickbooks, Small Business Web, Xero
     

    Disclosure – the accounting space is an area I follow closely and one in which I have spent time consulting with a host of different vendors. Full details on my disclosure page but suffice it to say I have…

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  • Xero and the US Market

    May 24, 2011

    Business
    accounting, PayPal, peter thiel, rod drury, Small Business Web, Xero
     

    In the four or so years since Xero launched with great fanfare in New Zealand, moved on to Australia and gained a modicum of visibility in the UK, many of us have been waiting to see what would happen…

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  • Friends Helping Friends–Google Joins The Small Business Web

    March 16, 2011

    Business
    BatchBlue, cloud computing, freshbooks, google, Google Apps Marketplace, mailchimp, Small business, Small Business Web
     

    I’m sitting in a panel at SXSW watching Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead, Google Enterprise question a select group of representatives from companies creating applications for SMBs. The topic of this panel is Friends with Business Benefits: How…

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  • On APIs and an Integrated World- MailChimp Steps Up

    November 22, 2010

    Business
    Application programming interface, mailchimp, Small Business Web
     

    I’ve long said that the value of SaaS for SMB end users lies, to a great extent, in the ability to tie together discreet applications. Obviously the ability to do so is dependent on the existence of good APIs…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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