Xero&#8217;s European headquarters?????

May 21, 2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Governance, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

Xero’s European headquarters?????

By Ben Kepes

I see (well actually read) that Xero is competing in a competition to win a place in a technology park in Wales.

Now I don’t want to sound sour but wasn’t it just last week that we were getting all excited that a tech start up would be scaling worldwide from a Kiwi base. Maybe the exposure of winning the competition is sufficient or they just want to put a sales office in Europe or something, but if the development happens overseas, the company is registered overseas (which i assume would be the case), where is the pay back for New Zealand?

You’ll also note that interspersed with a number of Xero related posts I do actually post on other subjects! It’s just that Xero is particularly topical at the moment!

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2 Responses to “Xero’s European headquarters?????”

Rod says:

May 22, 2007 at 5:40 am

Are you kidding?!? Xero is developed in NZ. We’re looking at sales offices all over. Xero is NZ owned and future revenie comes here. Haven’t we made that 100% clear. This is all part of the process of going global. Relax, let us get on with it.

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benkepes says:

May 22, 2007 at 6:42 am

That’s great to hear Rod – just checking. Good luck with the competition!

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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.