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Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes on July 30, 2012

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

Posted in Application Software, Business | Tagged accounting, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, myob, New Zealand, Public company, rod drury, sage, trademe, xero

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes on May 3, 2012

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for its financial forecasting tool. They’ve […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged 60mo, accounting, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, xero | 1 Response

Responding to Competition–In the Cloud World–It’s All About Raising the Tide

Responding to Competition–In the Cloud World–It’s All About Raising the Tide

By Ben Kepes on April 4, 2012

It’s an interesting trait and one which I believe isn’t specific to Sage – in corporate rooms all across the world, highly paid strategy analysts are spending time agonizing over the impact of a tiny player in their space. That in itself is bad enough, but the flow on effects are far worse.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, kashflow, sage, xero

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes on March 29, 2012

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. In a post discussing this AccMan says that; As things stand today, […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged cloud computing, currency, kashflow, multi currency, myob, quickbooks, software as a service, twinfield, xero

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

By Ben Kepes on March 26, 2012

Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and found that the vast majority of people who never converted from free trial to paid-up had […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Application service provider, cloud computing, duane jackson, kashflow, services, xero | 2 Responses

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

By Ben Kepes on February 29, 2012

Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged brightpearl, customer relationship management, Ebay, Electronic commerce, kashflow, netsuite, quickbooks, software as a service

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes on October 26, 2011

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written about before, is a free […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged charles river ventures, cloud computing, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, saas, software as a service, wave accounting, xero | 1 Response

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

By Ben Kepes on September 13, 2011

News just in that UK SaaS accounting vendor FreeAgent has nabbed GBP2M in investment from SM Trust and Torch Partners. It’s an interesting development given the other two main players in the UK market, Xero and KashFlow are both currently well funded – Xero via an IPO and some subsequent private investment and KashFlow from […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship | Tagged Ed Molyneux, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, software as a service, xero

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

By David Terrar on January 28, 2011

Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution.  It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009.  I would argue that because […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, quickbooks, saas, sage, software as a service

Software Marketing Pranks

Software Marketing Pranks

By Zoli Erdos on October 26, 2010

I envy software marketing types.  They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference.  They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block.   My question: who […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Just for fun, Marketing | Tagged billboards, box.net, boxed software, conferences, edgy marketing, Great Plains, humor, kashflow, marketing pranks, microsoft, netsuite, Oracle, paypal, saas, sage, salesforce.com, sap, sharepoint, siebel, software marketing, wepay, zoho | 5 Responses

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

By Ben Kepes on June 9, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged duane jackson, kashflow, sridhar vembu, tony hsieh, VC, xero, zappos, zoho | 4 Responses

Carry The One – E-Commerce Integration FTW

Carry The One – E-Commerce Integration FTW

By Ben Kepes on December 16, 2009

I’ve spoken many times before about the power of integration and what it can bring to businesses. I’ve also whined about the inefficiencies caused by separate, integrated services – one of my own businesses is a good example of this pain – having to receive e-commerce orders, manually enter them into and accounting package, manually […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged cre loaded, e-conomic, freshbooks, kashflow, magento, oscommerce, shopify, xero, zen cart

SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

By Ben Kepes on November 30, 2009

Over on Accounting Web, a right royal stoush was started when Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury wrote an op ed piece opining what the withdrawal of Microsoft’s Office Accounting product means and, more importantly, what is behind the move. For those who need the history, Microsoft discontinued its Office Accounting product line, having determined that; existing free […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged accy2, intuit, ipp, kashflow, microsoft office accounting, myob, sage, xero | 5 Responses

SaaS CEO on Improving Website Visitor to Trial User to Paying Customer Conversion

SaaS CEO on Improving Website Visitor to Trial User to Paying Customer Conversion

By Zoli Erdos on October 21, 2009

I don’t claim to be an expert in the area, so this is more a quick pointer then a real post. Well, too short for a post, too long for a tweet:-) Duane Jackson, CEO of SaaS accounting provider Kashflow writes up his experience of using Google Analytics and Website Optimizer to fine-tune his site […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged conversions, google analytics, hubspot, inbound marketing, kashflow, tools, website optimizer

SaaS Certainty – Escrow is the Answer

SaaS Certainty – Escrow is the Answer

By Ben Kepes on August 19, 2009

I got an email the other day from Escrow Associates,  a provider of software escrow services that has just today announced the release of their SaaS software escrow agreement. For those not accustomed to escrow services, they are a contract where by the IP of a product is held by a third party and is […]

Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged accy2, api, data, escrow, kashflow, kashguard, privacy, Security | 11 Responses

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