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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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TECHNOLOGY. Business Software. Technology. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product.

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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.) and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services. Founding Story: A Pivot.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.