You just started your new job and you want to make a good impression. You’ve been working at the same job for years and want more responsibility. In either case, how do you step up your game and make a difference? What can you do to get yourself noticed? Continue Reading…
Archives For November 30, 2013
Submit to Concur, easy as 1, 2, 3!
You might have read the news that our friends at Concur have just sold to SAP, a global enterprise powerhouse.
This is great for nearly everybody: SAP, Concur shareholders, and especially for us. As for Concur customers… well the future just got a bit cloudier (and not in a good way). They probably feel locked into a long-term contract with a company whose focus has suddenly shifted away from their needs, and I’m sure that doesn’t feel great. Expensify exists to help people feel great about their expense reports, so in light of the news we’re offering a very special deal: Continue Reading…
At lunch with the Tunisian Minister of Technology, M. Tawfik Jelassi, at the International Innovation Summit of 2014, the topic of the day was: how do you bootstrap a startup ecosystem?
Don’t Reinvent What’s Already Been Done
To be clear, the question isn’t “How do you recreate Silicon Valley?” I think Alberto Sillitti (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) has answered that question best: Silicon Valley simply cannot be replicated. It is the unique product of 100 years of risk, return, and reinvestment, starting with vacuum tubes and leading to the present. Silicon Valley is a petri dish of large corporations, startups, and industry/university partnerships, concentrated into a 100 km strip of land, and fueled by a global base of private investors. The conditions that created Silicon Valley exist nowhere else in the world, and probably never will again. Continue Reading…
A mobile app is a necessity for any company trying to make it in the big league. At Expensify, we’ve built apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone – and even had a Palm Pre app too, when it mattered.
Compared to mobile web usage, mobile app browsing time has increased by 6% from 2013 to 2014. It’s no wonder that companies are vying for a mobile user’s attention by building a native app. Developing a mobile app isn’t easy, but avoiding these three common misconceptions can drastically increase your reach and adaptability. Continue Reading…
Olá from Portugal!
We’re halfway through our first week in Lisbon, and oh, what a beautiful city it is!
Traveling abroad with an entire team is exciting, but it also requires a higher level of patience to work together as we’re all in a state of ebb and flow. To stay as productive and on task on the offshore as we are in the office, we follow these few simple guidelines. Continue Reading…
Think back to all the jobs you’ve ever had in your life. In those roles, when did you finally get handed some real, capital-R Responsibility on the job?
Individuals are generally hired at a company based on what they’ve done in the past and how that translates to potential at the new position. Even after a rigorous interview process that should have proven the candidate to be a very capable person, a new hire still has to prove themselves before getting some real responsibility. Why is that? Continue Reading…
Raising money or starting your own business? Then you might want to continue reading!
David recently spoke at the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit (SVIS) about the cultish view of customer acquisition amongst startups and the myths of performance acquisition. Check out the video for tips and tricks on how to avoid the CaC trap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCV_53JOYNc Continue Reading…
At the crossroads of yes and no
As a small business owner that caters to small business owners, I can say with extreme confidence: Yes! Yes, absolutely turn down any investment unless the following three things are true: Continue Reading…
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to live with 30 of your coworkers?
For Expensify, that’s crossed off our bucket list! We do our annual (totally optional) offshore abroad, but it’s never been on this level in size and scope (not to mention, we don’t all live together under one roof on the offshore). Last week, we spent seven days in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan eating, working, sleeping, and then some; fun was just the tip of the iceberg. Continue Reading…
Check it out, you ain’t seen nothing like this before!
During our UPshore in Michigan, we took some time to do our version of the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and #StrikeOutALS.
We’re also doing our part by donating to the cause; learn more about ALS and donate here!