Hi folks, most of you have probably already heard the exciting news: Homestead is going to become an Intuit company!
This is especially great for us because the people at Intuit believe in our product vision and are eager to help us achieve it. Their small business expertise is a perfect complement to our goal of giving you, our customers, the very best in website and online sales tools for small businesses.
There are a lot of reasons why Intuit wants to aquire Homestead, and they mostly boil down to this: they want us to keep doing what we’re doing, only more so. I can tell you that everyone here on the Product Team at Homestead is absolutely thrilled with the news. Being taken under the wing of a larger, innovative company will give us access to more resources and additional expertise, which will help us accelerate our plans for new and improved products. At Homestead we’ve always had more product ideas than we’ve had resources to develop them. Now, although I’m sure there will always be more ideas than time in the day to build them, we’ll be able to deliver more to our customers at an even faster pace.
Personally I’m very excited about joining up with Intuit, and I hope we can give you some idea of just how exciting this will be for you, too. We’ll still be the Homestead you know and love: same people, same mission and, once we’re part of Intuit, all the commitment to our customers and focus on quality products that both those names represent.
You can read more about the upcoming deal on the official press release. Stay tuned for more news, and as we roll things out we’ll be sure to let you know about them right here in our Product Blog.
“Homestead and Intuit”; we like the sound of that, hope you do too!
- Rochelle
November 28, 2007 at 10:44 pm |
Hooray for Homestead! Hooray for “We the Customers!”
November 28, 2007 at 11:29 pm |
I hope Intuit continues to improve its services to small businesses. Homestead was the only place I found that I could design the kind
of web site I wanted to sell note cards. Congratulations Justin Kitch
and the Homestead team.
December 5, 2007 at 4:52 pm |
Will be launched by the end of this year (maybe)
Regards,
CMS,
Sergio’s World Beers
Email : generalmailbox@sergiosworldbeers.com
http://sergiosworldbeers.com
January 2, 2008 at 4:13 am |
Good luck with the new challenge.
May 11, 2008 at 4:33 pm |
Hey! This is totally shocking news…but it makes sense, and will be a win for the customer.
My Q: is….do you think you can create a marketplace like they have with QuickBooks where StoreFront E-Commerce is all connected into QB?
If there was a marketplace of add-ons (external or otherwise) for StoreFront, it could catapult it up into the very very large store ionosphere. One inventory, with one accounting, on POS, E-commerce, Amazon.com and other online platforms!
“Ecosystem”…what a great term, that is so cool!
Good luck!
G.