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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. The company's market capitalizaiton is $3.2 Athenahealth version 1.0

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Tiny, contracting market. works with the massive market that is YouTube. The only––and the strongest––track record you can have is the product you’ve built and the traction/market feedback you’ve gotten. link] Carter Cleveland Dude! link] Carter Cleveland Dude! Customers are technophobes.

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