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As the tax season approaches, I am starting to look for tax and accounting software for myself and CueSense. I used QuickBooks/TurboTax for my first startup Enmatic, but found Intuit’s pricing very monopolistic, especially for TurboTax. So this season I hoped I would find a better deal for small business software and did a bit of research. Result? Nothing [...]

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You don’t. You try, you make your product the best it can be and you let users judge it. All the talk about meeting customer needs is too simplistic - there are dormant, hidden needs which people are just not aware of and that only surface when there is a product / service that awakens them. Someone had [...]

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Can someone tell me what is going on at delicious? Monthly unique visitors in US have declined to around 1M according to comScore. For social bookmarking apps unique visitors are simultaneously a proxy for the active user base.

Worldwide trend is the same - after 6M uniques in September only 2.5M in February.
Compete.com confirms the US trend, albeit they [...]

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Nicholas Carr gave the opening keynote at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. I have my disagreements with Mr. Carr. For starters, he has a Wall Street approach to technology, any technology. His favorite comparison is that of computing power and electrical power. Carr likes to use such terms as “raw computing power”, [...]

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