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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. Athenahealth version 1.0 was a complete failure.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup. Aron Yechezkel, our CTO, would definitely open and run a bouldering gym. What other startups have team members been involved with? Sceenic is based in London.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!