Tag Archives: Zoho

August 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

PipeJump from Future Simple–Another Small Biz CRM

By Ben Kepes

Small businesses, formerly unable to enjoy the real benefits that CRM offers, are seemingly now spoilt for choice – there seem to be dozens of companies offering lightweight CRM specifically for SMBs – offerings from Zoho, CapsuleCRM are but a few of the multitude of offerings that exist. Today it’s

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June 9, 2010 Posted in duane jackson, Small business, sridhar vembu, Strategy, tony hsieh, zappos 3 Comments

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few posts about growth through funding and growth through organic means. Tony Hsieh from Zappos told his tale of woe about the expectations of VC’s in terms of good exits. On the other hand, Sridhar Vembu, Founder of Zoho (disclosure – Zoho is exclusive sponsor of CloudAve) wrote an excellent [...]

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October 17, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

CRM Webinar

By Ben Kepes

CRM is a really valuable tool that only now has become available to those on the smaller end of the business spectrum. Zoho is hosting a free webinar on “CRM Best Practices” in a few days. Most of you know that Zoho sponsors the other place I blog, you’ll also

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October 1, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, PaaS, SaaS, The Cloud Leave a comment

Build the Marketplace and the Stallholders will come

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching their application marketplace today. Like other similar offerings, the Zoho location is a place where customers can come and browse different applications, try them out and buy them (or get ‘em for free in some cases). Think of it as iTunes for apps. The difference between Zoho’s

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September 12, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

Playing the contrarian

By Ben Kepes

I was a little surprised when I saw this post by Rodrigo over on the Zoho blog. The title struck me as a little strange coming from someone who works for a business that is pushing the SaaS boundaries – what was he up to saying that Software + Services

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September 11, 2008 Posted in Blogging, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 8 Comments

A new day, a new gig

By Ben Kepes

It’s a little bit later than expected but at last I’m happy to announce the creation of  CloudAve. Along with a great team of writers and researchers, Zoli Erdos as editor in chief and myself as editor will be creating what we hope will become the pre-eminent location for cloud computing

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Zoho docs – yet another reason operating systems will become irrelevant

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching Zoho docs today at the Office 2.0 conference. In essence Zoho Docs is a central place to manage all your personal documents. The same way Windows explorer helps manages your desktop files. It’s got all the good drag-and-drop goodness you’d expect from an explorer type product, integrates

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Moving up the food chain….

By Ben Kepes

Zoho CEO Sridhar wrote this excellent post about why Zoho plays in the office productivity space, but why Google only will do up to a point. The gist of his post is that for Google, docs is a low margin offering compared to their traditional business. Therefore docs moves Google

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August 27, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, The Cloud Leave a comment

Party time

By Ben Kepes

For those either attending the Office 2.0, or in San Francisco next week – just a note that Zoho will be hosting a party to both celebrate their millionth user milestone and to announce a couple of new things. The party will take place at; Vitrine @ St. Regis (4th

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August 15, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

A cool real-world example…

By Ben Kepes

The guys at Zoho needed some real world examples to show off their on-demand offerings. They’re also pretty interested in the Olympics. Put the two together and you have this cool 2008 Olympics dashboard. It’s been put together with a bunch of different Zoho offerings and shows some insightful stats

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