Finance Should Be a First-Class Discipline for Startups
Tim O’Reilly, the founder of the O’Reilly media empire, published a great longform essay recently titled, “How I Failed“. It’s a phenomenal read which covers a wide variety of topics, including how O’Reilly sold GNN to AOL for $15 million in stock, sold that stock as soon as the lockup expired for $30 million, and […]
Host Analytics Improves Their CPM Suite With Executive Report Manager
Host Analytics, a vendor offering SaaS based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Solutions yesterday announced that they are adding Executive Report Manager (EPM) to their suite. For more than a decade they are helping managers make fact based decisions backed by sound financial justifications. Their platform is a collection of decision calculating tools that will offer […]
From the Archives: Personal IPO
Going all the way back to 1995, I’ve speculated that promising young people should be able to sell a claim against their future income stream. Back then, I called it the Personal IPO. The original idea came to me after rock star David Bowie sold the infamous “Bowie Bonds,” backed by the royalties from his […]
Is the Cloud term an asset or just marketing hype?
A few things came together for me this week around the Cloud term. I spent time with one of my best customers discussing online accounting, what we should do to improve the product we represent in the UK, and how we should position to beat the incumbent in the small business market, Sage. But the […]
The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]
Does AccountingWEB get SaaS?
Let me start this post by saying I’m a big fan of AccountingWEB (in the UK, I don’t particularly follow the US edition). For the accountants in business and in practice or anyone interested in the sector it’s one of the key resources to read – they cover everything from tax to technology, but it’s […]
Breaking News: Intuit To Acquire Mint
Techcrunch is reporting that Intuit (Previous Cloud Ave coverage of Intuit can be found here, here, here and here), the company that offers financial and accounting SaaS solutions to Small Businesses, is acquiring the personal finance service Mint (Previous Cloud Ave coverage of Mint can be found here and here) for $170 Million. Launched in […]
