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 The 10-Step Tech Checklist

January 3, 2012 

The 10-Step Tech Checklist

I don’t want to grinch on your holiday spirit, but the sad fact is that Tax Season kicks up in less than three weeks. And chances are very good that you are not prepared. So as you are bouncing around trying to figure out what to do with yourself this week (assuming you are not...…

Dave McClure

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January 3, 2012 

Should I Take My Practice to the Cloud?

It seems that everywhere we turn these days we’re inundated with messages of moving to the Cloud. Sometimes it feels as though the Mad Men advertising powerhouse is hard at work in the Sterling-Cooper board room, coming up with new material to keep the accounting world drinking that Cloud Kool-Aid

Brian Austin, Kim Hogan

 With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean

December 20, 2011 

With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean

New businesses are getting off the ground with nearly half as many workers as they did a decade ago, as the spread of online tools and other resources enables start-ups to do more with less. The change, which began before the recession, may be permanent, according to some analysts. “There’s something long-term at work here,”...…

Angus Loten

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December 13, 2011 

Does SaaS Make Sense for Your Small Business Clients?

We’ve been talking about software-as-a-service (SaaS) for years. For the uninitiated, SaaS is web-based software that users basically rent or subscribe to, as opposed to owning it on CD or on an actual computer (on premises). There is more to the definition of SaaS, of course, and there’s a lot of subjectivity in those definitions....…