VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The other interesting observation: Unlike other medical device companies, Apple’s current Watch business model is not dependent on getting insurers to pay for the watch. Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers.

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