FreshBooks and CreativeMornings

by Sally Rumble

CreativeMornings recently reached our 120th city globally (YAY!), and we’re thrilled to welcome FreshBooks as our new Official Partner for Invoicing and Accounting! The story about FreshBooks and CreativeMornings is a long one, going back to the very beginning.

One September morning in 2008, Tina Roth Eisenberg (swissmiss) started CreativeMornings as a “studio coffee and chat” in DUMBO with a room of 30 people. Amazingly, FreshBooks helped make that first event possible by buying everyone breakfast, and has supported the NYC chapter every breakfast since.

FreshBooks’ connection to the creative community dates back to when its founder and CEO, Mike McDermott was running his own design studio in 2003. In a moment of frustration over sending invoices to his clients, he coded a solution that led to a side project, which over the past decade has become the cloud-accounting system we now know as FreshBooks.

Similar to Tina’s mantra of “Don’t Complain, Create,” Mike has built FreshBooks bit by bit to help solve the invoicing and accounting woes of those running a small business. Mike also released a book aimed at helping creatives who have struggled to put a price on their services. “Breaking the Time Barrier” has been downloaded over 200,000 times.

Together, we are so excited to continue CreativeMornings’ free events to local creative communities around the world. See you in the morning!

To learn more about FreshBooks visit our partner page, and to become a FreshBooks customer, head to their website. (And, huge thanks to Tory Williams for shooting the image above!)