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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

StitchLabs–Solving SMBs Inventory Woes

By Ben Kepes

Many readers know that outside of technology, I own a business that manufactures apparel and other products and sells them both online and through retail outlets. Having been involved in that business for 17 or so years, I’ve had first-hand experience of just how difficult it is to run a

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May 24, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero and the US Market

By Ben Kepes

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 in he REAL market, that of the US. While I personally

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May 6, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Downstream Effects–The Salesforce Mafia

By Ben Kepes

We often here about the alumni from companies like Google and PayPal, and the startups they’re involved in – indeed it seems that having one of these elite put their name to a startup holds a cachet similar to that given to “by Royal appointment” in the UK. When news

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October 24, 2010 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Xero Gets Some Acid on the Blogosphere

By Ben Kepes

Last week Xero announced that Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and the first external investor in Facebook, was investing NZD4 million to “support Xero’s expansion into the US market”. Not surprisingly the move got significant attention both in New Zealand and elsewhere – I have to admit that while I

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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