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Leaders vs Managers

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You have to do what a manager tells you. But you follow a leader because you want to. A manager has the formal authority to demand obedience. A leaders power is informal – she stimulates, convinces and inspires people to follow her. Managers are appointed to a position. You can…

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Spotifired – why we can’t advertise with Spotify any more

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An Open Letter. Dear Spotify, We love Spotify at KashFlow. Nearly all our staff have personal accounts, and we have Sonos throughout the office running primarily from a dedicated Spotify account too. Many of us use it on our phones on the commute into work too. We’re addicts. Last yeartest…

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Front-end developer, London

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At KashFlow we are not shy of taking the road less travelled. Right now we are redefining how SaaS products get delivered by building a first-of-its-kind application. Bucking the common trend to build multiple native apps, which we feel is the antithesis of SaaS development, we are building a responsive…

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My Accountant Wants Me To Use Sage

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I wanted my website to work on all web browsers – it’ll get me lots more customers. But the web designer I’m paying said it makes his life easier if he only makes sites for Internet Explorer 6. I wanted a Mac – I find them much easier to use…

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Leadership and Creating a Movement [VIDEO]

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It’s Friday! So here’s a short (3min) video explaining how a movement grows. Thank you to @MissKashFlow for being my first follower and transforming me from a Lone Nut. And to the rest of my team and our customers for making KashFlow a movement. Keep on dancing.

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Pitch for Skills, Not for Funding

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What’s better than a cash injection? How about a skills injection? I can testify that hiring an experienced industry exec has had far more impact on my business than a pile of cash would have. It’s telling that a common use of cash raised by businesses is to hire talented peopletest…

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Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right…

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In the cola wars, it’s rare that contenders other than Pepsi and Coca Cola are mentioned. This shouldn’t be that surprising – they have billion dollar budgets (Coke spent just shy of $3bn on advertising in 2010 alone) and employ megastars like Beyonce (Pepsi) and Taylor Swift (Diet Coke) to…

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Facebook Advertising Sucks

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Last year, we ran a large scale advertising campaign made up of a number of different elements. One source that performed much better than we were expecting was Spotify – we tracked a substantial amount of trialists and experienced a lot of positive interaction on social media while the advert…

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Introducing PDF Themes

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UPDATE 5th April We’re re-releasing this feature today after initially having to roll back the release last month - – - – - - We’re now rolling out a big upgrade to the way PDF Documents (Invoices, Quotes, etc) are produced. It addresses a number of common requests including: Higher…

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FinTech 101 and #sizzle8

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Watch out, ‘the cloud’, your days as a media darling may be numbered – FinTech is the new buzzword. But what is FinTech exactly? Sadly, nothing to do with robot sharks, FinTech actually refers to the current wave of innovation in the sphere of financial technology. Last night a few…

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Dozens of new Integrations for you to try

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Do you use any of the services or products listed below? We’ll soon be releasing a new service that connects all of them to your KashFlow account. But before we do, we want to get a few of you using it to try it out and see what we can…

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Top 5: Things you need to get a business started…

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This is a guest post by Will Roberts  Will is a marketer and CMO at Mindwork Labs. He works on projects that generally involve an affiliate marketing element and tweets as @WillDRoberts. Aged just 18, he’s already making waves in the marketing and content industry, working alongside young entrepreneur (and Secret…

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Get a Startup Loan in One Day

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I’ve been fortunate enough to see the Startup Loans initiative take shape from close-up. I’ve seen it go from an idea in my chairman’s over-worked head to being  announced by government to being a reality. Now it’s all up and running, there are numerous ways you can get a startup loan. But there’s an…

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The Office of the Future

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The past couple of weeks have seen a lot of debate around the subject of home-working. At the end of last month, Marissa Mayer revoked the right of Yahoo employees to work from home. Although this kicked up a lot of fuss, the subject is clearly a contentious one at…

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Service Availability Issues (Now Resolved)

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There have been intermittent issues with accessing KashFlow over the past 24-48 hours. This affected about 20% of our customers and made the system too slow for them to use. This is of course totally unacceptable for an application that you rely on for your accounting needs. I feel personally…

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