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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

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

This means we do not fund a company because of what technology platform it chooses to develop on but rather what problem the company and product is solving and how big that opportunity is. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. Old school. Toast is simple.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Everything else flows from that.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

Steve Jobs loved simplicity and his products reflected that. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons. Still, fake dialog boxes got many more clicks than regular banners, which users had already started to ignore in 1997. ”.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character. They are also good indicators of the actual size of the type.