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Xerocon USA 2013 – a great debut!
6 September 2013
Great to host over 400 partners and Xero fans in San Francisco and share our story, vision and what’s coming up in the product, partner program and Xero ecosystem. This was the biggest Xerocon debut for a region yet so we’re feeling pretty excited for the future here.
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Rene Lacerte (Bill.com CEO) opened with pictures of his grandparents and discussed lessons learned from his dinner table MBA. This experience is what led him to understand “Cashflow is King”, and ultimately form Bill.com. After hearing about the product history, we had a live demo of the Bill.com integration with Xero and how the two help establish a paperless office.
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To close out the event we hosted a panel discussion with 3 Xero Gold Partners: Steve Chaney, Bruce Phillips and
*the director of small business services for the largest privately owned accounting firm in California, Todd Peterson from Armanino McKenna.
These gents openly shared their stories on how they made the decision to switch to the cloud and how they found Xero – Steve chose a memo “I’m turning off that server on July 1st”, Bruce chose to start with new clients,
*Todd’s staff thought he was nuts when he told the firm they were getting rid of Quickbooks – but the clients love it and he set up a specialist implementation team to help with the switch *
Thank you!
Great to see a packed house of next generation accountants and bookkeepers….Thanks for the awesome feedback so far! Jamie shared these quotes from attendees with the team today and we’re humbled:
“I’m speechless. Literally blown away by what you guys are doing”
“I’m over 70 clients since December and they are basically all coming from your web site…we’ve had to stop accepting clients until we hire”
http://blog.xero.com/2013/09/xerocon-usa-2013-a-great-debut/#more-37469
http://www.xero.com/us/roadshow/
(* from google
Armanino - Largest Privately Owned Accounting Firm in California. Tax, Audit, Consulting, and IT Practices. Winner - Best Places to Work in California.
- http://www.amllp.com/
35th largest CPA firm in USA
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/01/21/517519/10018680/en/Video-Release-Armanino-McKenna-Rebrands.html
Armanino rebranding
http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/Attachment/16738
