Tag Archives: Small Business Web

August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes

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 consulted to a number of companies covered in this post –

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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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March 16, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Friends Helping Friends–Google Joins The Small Business Web

By Ben Kepes

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 Integrations Sell Apps. On the panel are people from FreshBooks, MailChimp,

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November 22, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

On APIs and an Integrated World- MailChimp Steps Up

By Ben Kepes

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 on both sides of the integration exercise. Being involved in an

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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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