{"id":716,"date":"2006-09-14T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-09-14T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T19:22:00","slug":"ifn-you-don-lay-the-claim-then-yuh-don-get-the-gold-is-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/716","title":{"rendered":"If'n you don' lay the claim, then yuh don' get the gold. Is all."},"content":{"rendered":"

Intuit Press Release- Intuit and Google Forge Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n

: “For the first time, small businesses can use QuickBooks to market themselves online by listing their businesses on Google Maps\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, creating and managing advertising campaigns with Google AdWords\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 and posting their products for sale on Google through Google Base\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a free product listing service.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Card – Google-Intuit Integration Promising<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If there’s anything remotely like a univesal small business platform, it’s QuickBooks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ayup …<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

SNAFU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intuit Press Release- Intuit and Google Forge Alliance : “For the first time, small businesses can use QuickBooks to marketRead the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n

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