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Sadly, after almost two and a half years of uninterrupted service, our streak of 100% uptime has come to an end in a rather painful way. What Happened Exactly Yesterday morning we were experiencing sub-optimal performance with a piece of hardware and we decided to replace the hardware and nip the problem in the bud. …

Here is an excerpt from Small Giants – a fantastic book about exceptional small companies. Here is a quote from the founder of Inc Magazine: “I kept thinking the entrepreneur is like an artist, only business is the means of his expression…He creates [a business] from nothing, just like a blank canvas. It’s amazing. Someone …

I’m about to coin a phrase, or make a fool of myself by describing a concept that has been around for ages. Hold on to your hats, here come my thoughts on “transitional services”. Transitional Services are services that facilitate a user’s transition from one platform to the next – or at the least, ease …

Earlier this week FreshBooks exceeded the 80,000 user count. Along with the much anticipated ground mail release yesterday, we’ve recently received positve mentions from the likes Rafe Needleman of CNET and Marshall Kirkpatrick of Techcrunch. With a user count milestone, a successful ground mail release, some honourable mentions plus the end of summer around the corner, I sense …

We released our ground mail service today. Someone bought 100 stamps within the first 90 seconds. That’s a nice validation. The real story with our release today is this: countless businesses that are STUCK in the old/offline world and trying to get to the web so they can leverage the benefits of the internet (cost …

New in version 3.4 is the ability for you to receive your recent activity updates in an RSS feed. For those new to the world of RSS, here is a little guide to adding your RSS feed to a feed reader. In the example below I will be using a feed reader recommended by FreshBooks called Feedreader. 1. …

I am beginning to see more Doom and Gloom posts lately.  So I figured I’d take a moment to write a post about the single biggest obstacle standing between anyone who is thinking about running a business and their success:  FEAR of FAILURE. That’s right.  It’s not money, or strategy, or talent, that stops entrepreneurs.  …

Now FreshBooks is truly a billing platform. Why are we a billing platform? With the release of our API, businesses can leverage the benefits of FreshBooks and integrate FreshBooks into that existing process in much the same way as businesses use Salesforce’s App Force to leverage SalesForce. A major benefit of FreshBooks is it helps …

Levi wrote this about three years ago. I’m republishing it today because, much of it is as true today as it ever was. Sometimes people tell us they were going to build their own online billing solution until they came across FreshBooks and realized there was no point. Leveraging a proven solution makes a lot …