Comments on: Does sustainability matter?

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:36:33 +0000

Being 'green' of itself isn't going to get anyone very far. Explain the economics and you're in with a shout. @Jason – love EchoSign: pity compliance officers get in the way at my bank on that one.

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:51:16 +0000

It does matter, but today, mainly if you can have your cake and eat it too. Marking the "green" aspects of EchoSign has been the single least fruitful marketing effort we have done But, once they pay for something they want, they are very pleased to get the green benefits and even evangelize them …

By: Phil Hodgen

Phil Hodgen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:53:52 +0000

Speaking as someone who is keen on paperless technology, let me say that I don't bleed green. Maybe that's a sales pitch to other business owners but not me. And anyway, we have another ice age coming due to sunspot activity, don't we? The "green" bandwagon seems like a giant church campout "feel good" sing-along with little critical thinking. Inauthentic.

Paperless office stuff is fabulous.

We use http://www.worldox.com as a document management solution and in 8 years of use it is the only software that has never given us grief.

Everyone gets a REALLY GOOD scanner at their desk + Worldox = Total World Domination.

Now we're looking at switching to the Mac for our offices (we're a high end boutique of international tax lawyers and yes we do fixed pricing and not hourly pricing thank you very much) and unfortunately the equivalent software does not exist there. That unfortunately means we are shackled to our Windows workstations.

Dear Apple, Inc.: You would blow the small business market wide open if you facilitate relentlessly simple paperless office systems. Time Machine and Time Capsule give you a big chunk of the solution. You need a product like Worldox on OS X. Love, Phil.

@philiphodgen