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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. And when you do pivot, pivot hard.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Tiny, contracting market. Customers are technophobes. link] Carter Cleveland Dude! link] Carter Cleveland Dude! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Paul Nelligan Really amazingly good post.

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