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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

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Semiotics in Marketing: What It Means for Your Brand and Messaging

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As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. Interestingly, McDonald’s has been turning green since 2009 because they “want to clarify responsibility for the preservation of natural resources.”

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets. Green power reduces the energy efficiency advantage of trains and the hyperloop.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).