10 Common Startup Ideas That Haven’t Broken Through… Yet
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10 Common Startup Ideas That Haven’t Broken Through… Yet
Harrison Weber, thenextweb.com
Just because you have a great idea doesn’t mean your startup will succeed, and there’s a simple reason for this: concepts don’t make companies.
Startups depend on everything from the capabilities of their founders to the depth of the…
Code, the newsroom, and self-doubt
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Code, the newsroom, and self-doubt
I can pinpoint the exact moment when the awesome craziness of myOpenNews fellowship sank in. I was on my way home after my first day at BBC headquarters, looking around the subway car, and I realized that fully half of the passengers were reading BBC News on their phones. Whoa. Since then,…
Patient Information
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The Surge of Data in Healthcare
– GOOD Partnerships and Matt Chase contributed in Figures Of Progress, Technology and Healthcare
We know that data is all around us. Each time you make a web search, turn on your car or even scan your rewards card at the grocery store, data is being collected. But there’s one industry where there is a lot of data being gathered, and most of it isn’t being used.
In the healthcare sector, 80 percent of patient data is unstructured—meaning it’s not being organized in a predefined manner. The Center for Disease Control estimates 42 percent of all physicians have an electronic health record system that meets federal standards, but in the healthcare field especially there are many hand written notes and charts, which can’t be easily processed by traditional computer programs.
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The Web in 60 Seconds
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What happens online in 60 seconds everyday…
(Source: qmee & MyCleverAgency via SocialMediaToday)
“There’s nothin…
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“There’s nothing inherently wrong with an office job. Just realize what you’re signing up for. When the company-provided keg runs dry, the free lunches are making you fat, and playing the Xbox in the break room is no longer as fun as it used to be, what then? When you find that you now report to a politicking middle manager and not the inspiring CEO who interviewed you, will you still want to be there? Is a supposedly novel working environment enough to sustain you? When everywhere you might consider working looks more or less the same, is the novelty even there? Startups have been systematized, mythologized, culturally and socially de-risked; reduced down to formulas and recipes. Yet, there is no enduring formula for creativity and rebellion. When we attempt to factory farm innovation we breed out the very thing we’re trying raise: the creative destruction that stokes and re-stokes the fire of capitalism.”
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Top 10 Gamer Facts for Video Games Day (July 8th)
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Top 10 Gamer Facts for Video Games Day (July 8th)
Today’s computer and video game players include millions of Americans of all ages and backgrounds. And because of the rapid rise in popularity of games and the wide variety of audiences’ tastes and demands, people do not know many of the important facts about modern gamers. The Video Game…
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