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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. Tell us about your business.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30). 41:30-42:00).

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. They analyzed 8,529 Kickstarter projects and found seven types of updates: Social Promotion – Encouraging people to spread the word on social media. The problem?

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 The more I wrote about the oncoming mobile and broadband revolution, the more obvious it became that the print media was going to fight for attention with cheaper, faster publications. STARTING IT UP.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Yair Margolin: We are 7-8 people.