What amazing day yesterday…the IPP team had a blast and all of the developers of the 30 apps that made the finals delivered awesome demos during the day. Here's the official Intuit press release announcing the 4 winners – Corelytics, Bill.com, Postcard Services and Profitably - who each received $25,000 in prize money, and a special […]

We're back!  The judges have deliberated.  Hula dancers and drummers are on stage now warming up the crowd.  There's definitely a lot of energy in the room as folks snack and mingle but there's no disguising that there's $100,000 up for grabs in minutes. The VCs have taken to the stage to announce the winners […]

Profitably takes the stage to kick off the final wave of three demos.  Profitably positions themselves as a new generation of business modeling and forecasting tools.  They contrast all of the passion and energy of starting a business, describing it as a driving force of nature, with slogging through Excel as a business planning tool. […]

We're still at it, folks! BotBill takes the stage.  This app is focused on automatic invoicing, electronic payments, and late payment follow up.  In about 30 seconds, they demonstrated how you can receive and pay for an invoice, send invoice, charge credit card, send receipt, send email confirmation, and write the transaction automatically to QuickBooks.  […]

Bill.com leads off the next wave of presentations.  Bill.com saves their customer 75% of the time it takes to pay their bills and they get paid two to three times faster.  Who wouldn't want that?  This app is a comprehensive portal that helps business managers manage their receivables and payments.  Businesses and customers can short-circuit […]

"3 – 2 – 1 Showcase that App!"  That's our mantra for today and the way we introduce each app team.  Here comes the next wave! Full Slate is getting us started this afternoon and introducing us to their appoinment app.  Full Slate allows clients of small business to go online and make appointment at […]

And we're back . . . FrequencySupport is on stage, promising easy online help desk solution for small business.  Since the app is integrated with QuickBooks, you can see a customer's purchase history with company.  It's as easy to use as email with its one-screen design.  You can just sit down and get started.  FrequencySupport […]

We're in San Francisco today for the Intuit App Showcase and we'll be live blogging all day.  There are 30 talented developers here to pitch their apps that solve small business challenges to group of VCs.  At the end of the day, we'll award $100,000 in prize money to three winners. Bang the gong (literally–there's […]