Tech Talks #4 on the 6th June invited Gary Turner, Managing Director of Xero, to tell the inspiring Xero story: how the company started in 2006 and was listed on the New Zealand stock exchange by 2007. The inspirational talk is available below:

Our other two speakers offered very different views on the impact of technology on our future. Vipul Patel, founder of Spaice, was up first and spoke about the ‘True Costs of Technology’  and how as consumers our decisions are having a massive impact on the world – and not always a good one…

In contrast to Vipul’s talk, Javier Marti, founder of Hypnotic Sales, and author of Mobile, Domains & The Future spoke about an optimistic future thanks to technology…

Overall a great event that really inspired the audience whilst encouraging us to think about the future of technology.

Tech Talks #5 is on 3rd October. Tickets available soon – We look forward to seeing you there.

SpiderGroup issued a survey to local businesses this month, which revealed similar results: That 60% of those questioned thought ‘working from anywhere’ to be the most attractive quality of the cloud.

Perhaps this shows that keeping up-to-date with technology is more important than saving money? It certainly seems to represent society today – that people are much more mobile – which is in fact an enormous benefit to businesses.

It is a problem experienced by businesses all over the world. More than one person needs access to SAGE but it’s only installed on one computer in the office…..can ‘The Cloud’ help?

Accounting Software

The small business finance software market is now very mature. Dominated by SAGE line 50 with current estimates indicating a 1/3 dominant market share. Quickbooks and MYOB vie for second place however are often regarded as more ‘useable’ than SAGE line 50.

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