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Is the Future of Healthcare a Telehealth Company for Every Condition?

View from Seed

One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. . What’s the End Game.

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Vertical Velocity

deal architect

I predicted 2016 will be the year of verticals in the enterprise software space. This morning Jose Duarte, CEO of Unit4 updated us about the Higher Education acquisition they made a few months. We are off to a good start.

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc., In contrast, customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc. We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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The Biggest Barriers Keeping Your Startup From Seeing Its Full Potential

ReadWriteStart

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. Growth is all about customer acquisition – the process of attracting new people to the brand. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Or is it? .

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Unique ways to solve today’s talent crunch

Version One Ventures

Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Here are a few examples: 1. Look for acquired teams. Acquire a smaller development shop.

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[Asia] Tech In Asia Buys GameSaku In Acquisition Blitz

YoungUpstarts

Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. In the News acquisition Asia GamesInAsia.

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

Haystack

In the wake of what is now considered the second-highest enterprise SaaS acquisition in history, below are some quick takeaways that are on my mind: 1/ The Efficiency Of Silicon Slopes – By now it should be no surprise that Utah’s tech ecosystem is on fire. And, every year, it doesn’t materialize that way.