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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0 Visionary CEO.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. Edward’s University.