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Why hospitals should care more about digitally accessibility

The Startup Magazine

While some hospitals do manage to have such databases, patients often find accessing their medical records an uphill task. Accessibility testing is a method that makes the database easily accessible to the patient, especially the differently-abled people and doctors. This is even a more critical situation for differently-abled people.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. the role of SWIFT in international wire transfers). DLT removes the middlemen by enlisting the network of users to verify transactions.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been through multiple iterations of competitive databases, endless applications for trying to keep track of companies I’m either an investor in or compete with, and every different type of alerting system you could imagine. ” For the first decade of my investing experience, I made a lot of mistakes on this dimension.

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Top 9 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

At their most basic, CRMs are specialized databases that contain all of the information you need about your customers. Zoho has been offering SAAS (software as a service) since 1996 and boasts a huge slate of apps. CRMs help you to segment your customers (by location, industry type, etc.) Need email ? Accounting software?

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Founder Interview: Jim Elliott – Volunteer to NonProfit Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

In 1996, Jim left his career in the media industry—working with Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio and CLTV News—to become a full-time volunteer and teach individuals with disabilities how to scuba dive. It’s also given us time to redo our website, database, and update our training program. What were the first hurdles?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. I think there were 68 companies at one point in the database buyer’s guide. Her 30-year career gives her keen insights to the startup world, how it works and what has changed.

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Why We Chose Salesforce CRM Over Zoho

David Teten

I finally did it: I’ve moved my contact database over to the web. I’ve been a loyal Act user for my personal CRM system since 1996, and have 13,000 contacts in my database. After extensive research of different CRM solutions (thanks BestVendor ), we’re working with Salesforce.com.

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