 Hi, Jeffery here with the Cube. We are on the ground at the San Jose Convention Center at the Intuit QuickBooks event. It's their second event they've ever had, QuickBooks Connect. 2015, about 5,000 people, developers, accountants, and small businesses really coming together in the QuickBooks ecosystem. Talking about next-gen accounting and really helping entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship grow supporting entrepreneurs. So really excited to have a key person in this whole thing, Leslie Barber, Small Biz Engagement Officer at Intuit. Welcome. And you said you were the entrepreneur not that long ago. So you're on the other side of the equation. That's right. So 10 years ago, I started a company called Nutribella. Spent eight years as running that company with my business partner and then decided I was going to lead back over to Intuit to try to help foster small business success to try to bring the experiences I had as a main street business owner to a technology company like Intuit that serves small businesses. So what are some of the things you specifically do as a help small business beyond just getting the software and helping with the software? Obviously this is a great event that we're doing for small businesses to come and learn, get really practical, pragmatic tips that they can take. They get to get re-inspired as well as be educated, connect with other small business owners. In addition, we've also launched a really cool network called Onit. It can often be so isolating to run your own business. You have to make all the decisions by yourself. And Onit is a great way online where small businesses can connect with each other, ask questions, answer questions and really help move their business forward. So do you find that people look at at the QuickBooks community as a place to build community with other entrepreneurs? Yeah, that's what we hope for. So Onit is, there's 75,000 small business owners in Onit. So that is a huge community and it's really not about the product. It's really about how do you move your business forward? How do we fuel your success in general as a small business owner? So it's a great way that we can show our customers and non-customers that we're here for the long haul and really here to help them build their business. And then, and obviously cloud, mobile, social leasing have opened up a whole new world, QuickBooks is now in the cloud. How has that really changed the relationship with the small business owners? From the old days where I waited for my one to year in a CD and in front of them. So true, well, the average small business owner uses 18 different apps to run their business. So having the technology in the cloud can really help them connect. Who wants to do a double data entry, right? Let's get it all talking to each other. There's so many QuickBooks apps that have just really helped small business owners manage and run their business more seamlessly. And so by enabling them to do that, it just makes it so that they can spend more time on what they love, which is growing their business and less time on them running it for business. Now you were in a session earlier today. What were some of the topics you covered in your session was posted? So I joined Julie Gordon-Way and we did lessons learned from growing a $1 million business and how you can too. She did the how you can too and I did the lessons learned. So my business grew very quickly, very fast, but we hit some stumbling blocks with the economy. And so I, back in 2008, right? And so I talked about the different lessons that I've learned about how to, you really want to grow your business from 100,000 to a million or a million to 10 million. You need to stay distraction free. You need to be focused on your prize, focused on your passion, focused on your customer, solving a problem for them, not just in creating a solution, really solving that problem. So that's a lot of what we talked about. But still, even when you're doing that and you're growing your business, there's the kind of staying focused and then there's that kind of all the ancillary stuff that comes with growing a business. How many, what advice would you give to people to help kind of take care of all this other, that is distraction, but it's a necessary distraction to really grow that top line and get out there when you're customer? You know, one of the things that I found is that there's so many people out there who love to do what I hate to do. So quite frankly, find those people who love to do what you hate to do. And you know, that's one of the reasons why I think it's so helpful for small business owners to have an account with you. It's not also business owners want to do accounting and they seem to be more successful than they have an account. And so that can be a good example where financing, lawyer, legal, whatever it might be, you don't have to be the jack of all trades master of many. You can be the, you know, person who's kind of moving the business forward, focusing on revenue, focusing on your vision and then get people to help you. You can't make a million dollars on your own. No, that's a great tip. Find the experts that can help you, let them be the best at what they do and what you do. That's exactly right. And then now you've got this developer ecosystem. I don't know if people were maybe just me aware of kind of the end-to-end developer ecosystem to build new apps, specialty apps. So how's that for me to kind of grown at any age and really help you be honest with the person directly? Well, it's grown significantly. I mean, you imagine 18 different apps for every small business owner. We've got to have a way to talk to each other. I actually was a judge for the hackathon last night and it was so much fun to see in 36 hours when people were able to create to really make small business owners like the light next year. So it's absolutely critical. Small business owners are usually one or two people in the company. They can't do everything. So these apps can really help them save time, save money and move their business forward. So terrific stuff. So what are you working on next? What's kind of on your agenda that you're playing for the next three months? Ah, I'm all about own it right now. So own it's our network of small business owners. It's all online. It's a community that we don't know to get involved. They can go to ownit.com and they can download our app through iTunes. We will soon have one on the Android platform as well. Right now they can use our web mobile platform and we have over 75,000 people who are ready and excited to connect to you and connect with people locally, connect with people around the globe, ask your questions, get some answers. So I'm going to be throwing my heart and so on to that. Well, Leslie, thanks for taking a few minutes out of your busy day. I know you gotta run to another appointment because Leslie's all about engagement. She's engaging with more people. So congratulations on the great show. Thank you so much. Great to meet you, Jeff. Absolutely. So Jeff Rick here. We are at the Intuit QuickBooks Connect Show 2015. Thanks for watching.