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With mesh just around the corner (full disclosure: I’m one of the conference founders), I’ve got conferences on the brain. Most of the content you read about conferences is how to plan one. Here are some snippets from an excellent post with tips on “How to Attend a Conference“: Know Your Questions. Seek Your Answers. …

I’ll let you in on a little secret…here at FreshBooks HQ we ring a bell every time someone upgrades to a paying account. Inevitably it’s a race to “ring the bell” whenever one of those emails arrives. And while there are varying degrees of competition to actually ring it, everyone in the office loves the …

Sometimes I see things I just don’t believe in. Here’s an example. A recent Fortune Magazine article describes how Dov Charney, the founder and CEO of American Apparel, raised money through a SPAC. SPACs are shell companies that raise hundreds of millions in equity and go public. Once public they wait for an opportunity and …

As of last Friday, FeedBurner RSS stats now include Google Reader stats in their results – so if you have a feed like we do, you probably got a nice bump in your readership over the weekend (we went from 446 to 622 overnight…a 39% spike). It’s interesting to see that Google has already established …

Hey everyone, FreshBooks is doing some maintenance this Sunday – February 18, 2007 between 7:00 AM EST and 8:00 AM EST. (NOTE: 7:00 AM EST (GMT – 5) is 4:00am in LA, 7:00am in NYC, 12:00pm in London, 8:00pm in Hong Kong, and 11:00pm in Melbourne). Please expect your FreshBooks account to be unavailable for …

It’s almost here…coming very soon to FreshBooks is a seamless integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp project management service. Here is what you can expect from this integration: Import your Basecamp people into FreshBooks as staff or clients Import your Basecamp Projects, and To-Do lists into FreshBooks as FB Projects and …

I love Fortune Magazine – I’ve written about it before. Here is a snippet (republished without consent) from the most recent issue – it’s email Q & A with Jim Collins: Q: If you were to offer advice to a beginning entrepreneur, what would it be? – Franciso Romero, Alburquerque A: First, don’t obsess on …

I wrote an article for ThinkVitamin about “How to Name Your Company“. So far there are 30 comments and counting… check it out. Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin

This is the third edition of Ripe Data. What’s Ripe Data? It’s a monthly series we’re going to be doing on the FreshBooks Blog and it is an assortment and analysis of various metrics we track here at FreshBooks. Please note, Ripe Data will not include the valuable industry benchmarks active FreshBooks users will have …