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July 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

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May 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for

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April 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Responding to Competition–In the Cloud World–It’s All About Raising the Tide

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a bunch of different cloud startups – either as a founder, an investor or an adviser. Many of these startups are actively working on disrupting more traditional incumbent players, while many face competition from other entrants in the space. A recent blog post from Neil Ballard was

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March 28, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. n a post discussing this AccMan says

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March 26, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

By Ben Kepes

Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and found that the vast majority of people who never converted from

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February 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

By Ben Kepes

Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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September 13, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

By Ben Kepes

News just in that UK SaaS accounting vendor FreeAgent has nabbed GBP2M in investment from SM Trust and Torch Partners. It’s an interesting development given the other two main players in the UK market, Xero and KashFlow are both currently well funded – Xero via an IPO and some subsequent

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August 19, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LiquidAccounts and ClearBooks Update

By Ben Kepes

When talking about the SaaS accounting space in the UK, three companies get all the mentions – but beyond Xero, FreeAgent and KashFlow exists another couple of players that are working away at building viable businesses. It seems like time for an update on those two companies. First up, ClearBooks

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August 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Parody Marketing–and People with no Sense of Humor

By Ben Kepes

Duane Jackson, CEO of KashFlow and someone who has done an amazing job of harnessing the power of social media, recently launched a new marketing campaign with a character by the name of Tugg Gently. Tugg Gently is an apparently fictitious business adviser who has created a series of quick

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