Intuit Press Release- Intuit and Google Forge Alliance
: “For the first time, small businesses can use QuickBooks to market themselves online by listing their businesses on Google Mapsâ„¢, creating and managing advertising campaigns with Google AdWordsâ„¢ and posting their products for sale on Google through Google Baseâ„¢ – a free product listing service.”
David Card – Google-Intuit Integration Promising:
“If there’s anything remotely like a univesal small business platform, it’s QuickBooks.”
Ayup …
Almost exactly two years ago, having watched a brilliant business opportunity drain down the gutter (Buddy’s divorce took a turn for the worst and he crawled into a bottle; he drank away his little company’s payroll, leaving me on the hook for what I’d done to start our collaboration.) I left Nova Scotia and returned to Alberta after 20 years away. One of the very first things I did was to snoop Intuit to find someone to chat with … and I did find someone … “AlphaDog” I’ll call him. My pitch? That Intuit, with QuickBooks, was positioned to use Web2.0 in a way that would rival SourceForge.
But I’m just me. I can’t say my idea perculated up to catalyze this deal. I can, however, say that in the absence of intelligent risk capital (most VC is bait; I’m no fish) folk like me are fiddling in the streets. Oh-wooops, no … it’s worse: I’ve often made ready cash busking, but this is Alberta, and I don’t play red-neck music.
SNAFU