Sramana: So the medical billing companies were not the ones paying you? Dan Rodrigues: We sold our software as a monthly fee to the doctors. For us. the revenue was about activating licenses with the doctors via the medical billing offices. We were building out forecasts around a quicker adoption cycle. Doctors were not adopting
Sramana Mitra: You are talking a lot about domain-specific ontologies and workflows. How many domains are you covering right now? Kristin Muhlner: Today we have five service-based ontologies. We have one for food and beverage, one for hospitality, one for retail, one for healthcare products and one for government. All of those are under a
Sramana: How much did you raise in your first round? Dan Rodrigues: We raised $2 million. That was in 2005. Sramana: What is interesting in healthcare IT startups in that time is that the rest of the market had not figured out that it was a hot space. VCs realize that something is hot at
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Sramana Mitra: To deliver on this particular use case, you are obviously pulling data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels. How does that data framework work? Do you have to pay Twitter to get their data? Kristin Muhlner: No, we don’t. Twitter and Facebook are open feedback channels. As long as you comply
Sramana: You were working as a consulting developer for a small company to develop a medical front office management and billing solution. Did you decide to spin that out as a new company? Dan Rodrigues: As that project grew in scope, I started getting more and more excited about healthcare. I learned that the healthcare
Kristin Muhlner is the chief executive officer of newBrandAnalytics, the global leader in social market intelligence. Kristin has worked at companies such as Rollstream, webMethods, Deloitte Consulting, and Andersen Consulting and has more than 20 years of experience in this space. In this interview she talks about how newBrandAnalytics helps companies extract intelligence from online
In America, people never had to apologize for ‘making money’. These days, it seems, non-profits, and giving everything for free is considered more ‘noble’ than ‘for-profit business’. I wonder why. What’s changing in the psyche of society?