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Building a big health tech company(medium.com)
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Silicon Valley startup accelerators on the hunt for health-tech talent(reuters.com)
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by malay 12y ago
GOOG split in early April to create a third class of shares (Class C) that allows the founders to maintain control the company through their shares (Class B) for the foreseeable future. They had issued so many Class A shares, their 10:1 vot
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by malay 13y ago
Visit rockhealth.com/startups/submit/ and let us know if you have any questions. We host office hours every week or I'm happy to walk you through it via e-mail.
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by malay 13y ago
We're a full-service seed fund. Our roots were as an accelerator, but over time, we have realized that we continue to support our portfolio companies long after they "finish" at Rock Health. Our equity investment model is ver
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by malay 13y ago
We would love to hear more about it. We don't have any sequencing companies, but have multiple hardware and medical device companies in our portfolio. We don't shy from capital-intensive businesses.
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by malay 13y ago
Malay here from Rock Health—you're absolutely right. We have two close partners in the area (UnitedHealthcare and Mayo both) and come out once or twice a year. I'd love to connect with the community next time I'm in the Twin
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Signs that Apple's creating a health wearable(rockhealth.com)
1 points by malay 13y ago|0 comments
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A Clarification and an Apology(scott.a16z.com)
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Rock Health-Backed Kit Check Nets $10.4M To Help Hospitals Reduce Costs(techcrunch.com)
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Rock Health's fifth class includes Google Glass for doctors (rockhealth.com)
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by malay 13y ago
I was almost positive I had read the idea of Twitter as a protocol before (or something very similar), even though on Twitter[1] pg notes he never published this specific piece despite having written it in 2009. I really appreciated the sim
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by malay 13y ago
For medical devices that are based on modern mobile platforms, the average FDA clearance time is down to 67 days. It's not nearly as capital-intensive as it used to be and there are going to be plenty of predicate devices to base your filin
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by malay 14y ago
If you want to dig into the million SNP raw data from 23andMe any further than what is presented on the website, Jeff Hammerbacher and Konrad Karczewsk taught a Skillshare on doing your own personal genome analysis with Python and various o
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by malay 14y ago
If you don't hear from one of our alumni because they happen to miss this thread, feel free to e-mail me (e-mail is in profile) and I would be happy to connect you with someone.
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by malay 14y ago
These are some good points. On the EHR question, I think what we would like to see is a company that starts using the work coming out of Standards & Interoperability (S&I)[1]. One can reasonably expect that much of this work will su
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Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund(rockhealth.com)
75 points by malay 14y ago|29 comments
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by malay 14y ago
For a number of common health insurance transactions (verifying/checking health insurance information for a patient, procedure eligibility, patient demographics, claims status) that are part of the standard HIPAA transaction set, Eligible r
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by malay 14y ago
While I agree they are still heavily supply-constrained, the CapEx figures that Apple has released indicates they are significantly ramping up manufacturing capacity. They have sold more than 15M iPads in a quarter before. I would be surpri
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by malay 14y ago
Even using current run rate sales of the Nexus tablet, they would only be selling 3M a quarter. Apple sold 3M tablets in a weekend. If only 20% of the reported sales were for the iPad Mini, it is doubtful Apple will be outsold in the holida
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Wearable device detects stress based on autonomic nervous system(indiegogo.com)
1 points by malay 14y ago|0 comments
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by malay 14y ago
Pharmaceuticals represent approximately 10% of total health care expenditures versus hospital, physician and clinical services representing approximately 51% of total health care expenditures (for the latest estimated year of spending, 2010
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by malay 14y ago
There was significantly more behind the scenes. It would be very similar to what PwC just paid for (rebranding from PriceWaterhouseCoopers) [1]. Accenture was a rebrand of Andersen Consulting, the consulting division of Arthur Andersen, the
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by malay 14y ago
Changing the basis of competition in the marketplace from price to convenience (i.e., ease of use) is exactly what disruptive innovation is. Not all disruptive innovations are low end. Stripe is actually more like a new market disruption be
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by malay 14y ago
I don't disagree with the path you see Facebook going down and how disruptive it might be to Google. However, we shouldn't disallow for the chance that there will be an alternate future where "every little thing you do" is owned by an indiv
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by malay 14y ago
Ballmer certainly deserves more respect. Microsoft is still growing and making significantly more money at higher margins than nearly every other company on the planet. This article was published in a week where the CEO of a major corporati
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by malay 14y ago
The idea that you can mask learned knowledge of a company's strategy by simply not explicitly revealing sensitive information is a difficult concept to wrap my mind around. It is not possible to unlearn the information. If you are acting as
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by malay 14y ago
It would seem that a number of wealthy folks have an interest in space exploration. Musk has been mentioned, but Peter Thiel has also funded someone pursuing the idea of resource extraction from near Earth asteroids. Granted, it was for the
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by malay 14y ago
The history lesson on Amazon's business model is important, but the OP has it a bit wrong. The business model innovation was about inverting the cash flow and holding cash instead of inventory. Amazon actually pays suppliers much faster tha
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by malay 15y ago
Apple and Tim Cook have made it clear that they have more cash than what is required to run the business. Apple is spending billions on data infrastructure, manufacturing, pre-purchasing components and expanding retail operations; despite a

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