Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 8)

SM: Where are you now in terms of revenue, growth and profitability? EM: For 2008 we will have in excess of $20 million. We are operationally profitable. We are self-sustaining, which means we do not expect to have additional working capital coming from investors for day-to-day operations.

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Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 6)

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Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 5)

SM: Let me change the course of the conversation a bit. I would like to understand the genesis of this company. How did it start and what did it take to get to this point? EM: It was started in 2002. There was some nucleus of intellectual property that was purchased from a previous company.

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