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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

On an ongoing mission to find inspiring individuals disrupting markets, industries and organizations, I sat down with Kapil Parakh , Director of Heart Failure at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Not only is he bringing Lean Startup methodology into his medical practice, but he most recently helped launch Health For America.

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For Startups, 2012 Swung From Consumers To The Enterprise

ReadWriteStart

As the year went on, startups that target the consumer market had an increasingly hard time getting funded. Some may join forces, because the constraint in today’s market is talent more than money. For consumer-oriented startups, 2012 came in like a lion, but left like a whimpering lamb. Blame Facebook. Blame Groupon and Zynga.