Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 4)

SM: When you first started selling to individual physicians, how much money were they willing to pay? Typically when you bootstrap a company, you need to make money quickly in order to survive. GN: To be completely honest, that is one area where I completely lucked out. I ended up making a significant amount of

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Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 3)

SM: At the point when you were founding eClinicalWorks what was your intent and vision? GN: It was not very difficult for me to visualize the goal. What I was hoping to do was digitize healthcare just like finance and telecom had become digitized. We did not set out to build an EMR or a

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Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 2)

SM: At PetroVantage, did you focus primarily on technology or did you have a business strategy role there as well? GN: Technology was one aspect, but I was also exposed to leading a team and making business efficient. I stood my ground quite comfortably when I was exposed to senior executives in other companies like

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Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 1)

Girish Navani is the CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks, which offers unified electronic medical records and practice management solutions. eClinicalWorks has maintained high profitability and has over 25,000 providers as clients spanning all 50 states. Girish has also worked for Teradyne and Fidelity Investments, and he was part of the founding team of PetroVantage on

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Online Tutoring Still In Its Infancy: Sylvan Learning CEO Jeff Cohen (Part 7)

SM: What is your estimate of the 2010 tutoring market? JC: In dollar terms, the numbers that I have seen suggest that the market is around $4 billion. There are 53 million students in public education in the United States. The real question, which I don’t think anyone can answer, is exactly how many of them need

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Online Tutoring Still In Its Infancy: Sylvan Learning CEO Jeff Cohen (Part 6)

SM: How many students have you worked with online? JC: Thousands. What is really important is that we have created an online experience built on best practices we learned from our in-person tutoring sessions.

Online Tutoring Still In Its Infancy: Sylvan Learning CEO Jeff Cohen (Part 5)

SM: If we were viewing the screen of an online tutoring session, what would we be seeing? Is there a whiteboard? JC: It feels like a whiteboard. It is a shared environment where both teacher and student can see the lesson plan. The teacher can make comments on the screen and write on the screen,

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Online Tutoring Still In Its Infancy: Sylvan Learning CEO Jeff Cohen (Part 4)

SM: Has your online offering increased demand for your tutoring services? JC: We have also seen growth in pure student demand. Here I refer to students of families who are calling in and saying that they are interested in the Sylvan service but that they would like to take it online. They do not even

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