Round One: Name this company in 5 financial stats – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
About thirteen comments down, MSF makes the following, brilliant observation:
… true competition might be something like Excel and Post-It notes.
I once had the joy of recommending against, and thereby nixing, a major KM initiative. I wonder how many other enterprise software applications are really just competing against Excel and Post-Its?
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[...] Frankly, I’m surprised. I’d expect in this always connected mobile world there would be more companies pushing simple online accounting or personal financial management software. At the very least where are all the bloggers looking for it? On the other hand, this could be a case of competing against “Excel and Post-Its”. I’ll be reviewing Chipcount and mVelopes over the next few weeks from a Web 2.0 usability perspective. In the meantime, please share your experiences with this sort of software. [...]
By: Joshua Herzig-Marx - Whatever happened to online accounting? on February 23, 2006
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