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Xero Raises a Truckload of Cash from US Funds

Xero Raises a Truckload of Cash from US Funds

By Ben Kepes on December 3, 2012

Last week the announcement came that Xero had secured a huge investment round from US venture funds Valar Ventures (backed by Facebook founder Peter Thiel) and Matrix Capital Management. I’ve spent time talking with these US investors about Xero’s prospects and areas I thought the company would need to improve

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged craig winkler, Matrix Capital Management, New Zealand, peter thiel, rod drury, The Ventures, Vala (Middle-earth), xero

Xero Rolls Out Some More Network Effects and Faces Some Criticism. Some Lessons on Viral Strategies

Xero Rolls Out Some More Network Effects and Faces Some Criticism. Some Lessons on Viral Strategies

By Ben Kepes on October 1, 2012

Xero rolled out a new update this week which included some interesting and valuable features. The introduction of online invoicing is a bit of a watershed, rather than opening emailed PDF’s, customers whose suppliers use Xero can click on a URL which takes them to an online invoice. SO far so good – saves paper, saves […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, Customer, FreshBook, invoice, rod drury, vimeo, xero

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

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

By Ben Kepes on July 16, 2012

Xero is holding it’s annual Australian conference in Melbourne this week and in keeping with the norm for tech companies, we can expect some important announcements to be made at the event. I’ve received multiple notes from people speculating about potential news including acquisitions – some likely, some less so.

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged quickbooks, rod drury, Sam Morgan, software as a service, Vaughan Rowsell, vend, WorkFlowMax, xero | 1 Response

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2012

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, craig winkler, LiveMigrate, myob, peter thiel, rod drury, saasu, xero

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

By Ben Kepes on April 27, 2010

At the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Allister Croll gave an excellent presentation, actually as an aside, Croll ran close to half of the Cloud Connect sessions and really did a sterling job of managing the conference. Anyway – in his session Croll was talking about the opportunities for investment in the cloud and […]

Posted in Design | Tagged allister croll, azure, expanz, iaas, microsoft, paas, rod drury, syncplicity, xero

Channels – Direct or Partnered, Take Your Pick

Channels – Direct or Partnered, Take Your Pick

By Ben Kepes on August 12, 2009

I had a little online tete-a-tete with fellow SaaS commentator Dennis Howlett recently about market strategies for SaaS accounting companies. Dennis comes from an accountancy background and, from where I can stand at least, seems to have generally been supportive of vendors partnering with accountants as a major part of their go-to-market strategy. In his […]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged accy2, channel partnerships, chris tanner, dennis howlett, marketing, pearl, professional bodies, rod drury, saas, smb, xero | 1 Response

One Swallow Doth Not a Summer Make

One Swallow Doth Not a Summer Make

By Ben Kepes on July 20, 2009

Before any wit comes up with any other suggestions for the meaning of the title of this post, the “swallow” in the above refers to the bird, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, and not the physiological movement, phagia. For one swallow does not make the summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short […]

Posted in General, Security, Strategy | Tagged authorize, bing, cloud computing, equinix, google apps, microsoft, outage, phil wainewright, rackspace, radicati, rod drury, scott mcmullan, sla, xero | 1 Response

Xero Releases Multi-currency and First Hint of Tiered Pricing

Xero Releases Multi-currency and First Hint of Tiered Pricing

By Ben Kepes on June 21, 2009

(Disclosure – in the lead-up to the release of multi-currency, I did a very small amount of contracting to Xero to produce some marketing videos) A couple of months ago while I was in San Francisco I saw a sneak preview of some screen flows for Xero’s multi-currency capability. At the time I was pretty […]

Posted in Design, Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, multi currency, pricing, rod drury, saas, xe.com, xero | 8 Responses

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