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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO.

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. Employees who score low in the “life satisfaction” metric tend to stay home 1.5 When Gary McPherson studied musicians in 1997, he discovered there was one major factor that contributed to success years down the line.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

That’s because the making of the company relies on the founders, the CEO, the executives, the team members–in other words, the people who are putting in 80 to 100 hours per week, rather than the board members who are putting in one to two hours per week. Right now, our whole bet is on the CEO and the founders and making them successful.

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