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March, 2007

Setting Expectations

Setting Expectations

Inspired by my participation in a panel at SXSW, this post is one in a series of posts regarding the building and operation of web application startups. Many of the questions posed to the panel were about expectations; this post endeavours to ground expectations of aspiring entrepreneurs in reality, by highlighting the stories behind a …



Feature Leak: Add Lines to Your Invoices

by Jeff Sarmiento  |  March 30/2007  | 
Feature Leak: Add Lines to Your Invoices

Here is a little feature that we’ve been working on that’s coming out in the next release of FreshBooks.  It allows you to easily add a line to an invoice wherever you like… a slight improvement to the current functionality which only allows you to add a line to the bottom. This is all done in Javascript …



Quickie review: BlackBerry 8700

by Mike McDerment  |  March 29/2007  | 
Quickie review: BlackBerry 8700

I finally broke down and bought a BlackBerry. So far I have to say it’s been amazing. I bought a BlackBerry 8700, but the reason I was inspired to post is sort of unusual. I decided to post because I dropped my brand new BlackBerry 8700 three times in the first 24 hours I had …



Does anyone even use Basecamp?

Does anyone even use Basecamp?

When considering whether we should build the integration of FreshBooks with Basecamp, there were a few questions all of us here wanted answered before proceeding: 1. How would our small business customers use Basecamp and FreshBooks together? 2. Would any integration we build bring enough benefit to our users for it to be worthwhile? 3. …



So you think you are fast?

by Daniel Tsang  |  March 27/2007  | 
So you think you are fast?

Try out this simple test to see how fast your reaction speed is. A few months ago, I made a blog post about improving your productivity with hotkeys.  This week, I’ll show you how to increase your productivity by increasing your mouse pointer speed.  The logic is simple.  If you move your mouse a shorter distance …



In Business, Perspective is Everything

by Mike McDerment  |  March 26/2007  |  , ,
In Business, Perspective is Everything

Occasionally you are lucky enough to have a realization come crashing through – you learn something that you will probably never forget. Here’s one that crashed through on me – in business, perspective is everything. One day about 3.5 years ago Levi and I were sitting with a couple VCs and they were telling us …



Report Card Season is Approaching

by Levi Cooperman  |  March 23/2007  | 
Report Card Season is Approaching

Coming soon to your FreshBooks account is a report that looks like that school report card that you used to dread arriving every semester. The difference is that instead of Cs in Algebra, this report card has valuable business benchmarks for your small business. My guess is, instead of dreading it, you will be counting …



We’ve Been Cloned Again

by Jeff Sarmiento  |  March 21/2007  | 
We’ve Been Cloned Again

We have shown you an example of our website being cloned before, here is another that we just discovered: http://www.greatvantage.com I’ll take it as a compliment… I guess. facebook Recommend on Facebooklinkedin Share on Linkedin


PC World Doesn’t Get It

by Mike McDerment  |  March 21/2007  | 
PC World Doesn’t Get It

PC World wrote us up a few weeks back, and despite saying that FreshBooks “will handle your billings and collections with aplomb”, I have to say they totally missed the point. First of all, what makes FreshBooks exciting? We’re serving a previously un-served need by allowing people to send invoices and collect payments without being …



Dell…Just Let Us Go

by Mike McDerment  |  March 20/2007  |  , , ,
Dell…Just Let Us Go

We bought three new Dell machines and four monitors earlier this month and since then we have been receiving a steady stream of sales emails from Dell. Daniel unsubscribed from their mailing list this morning, which as he says “was easy, but…” after unsubscribing, Dell informed Daniel it can take ten business days to become …




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