Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Unique Vintage Using a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Founder CEO Katie Echeverry had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. Here is her story from 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch gear again to the open problems. What is your analysis of the whole gene editing and the CRISPR world? What is possible? What problems can be solved in the short, medium, and long term? Aneesh Chopra: This is an area that will go in three directions. We’re still in

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Get Real Health Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2014, Get Real Health Founder Robin Wiener had built an excellent company with large, international clients in the healthcare domain and had used the bootstrapping using services technique that we espouse in 1Mby1M. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the beginning

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In this use case that you mentioned, what are they doing with that information? Aneesh Chopra: Establishing contracts. Physicians negotiate contracts with insurance companies on a fee-for-service basis. If I see a patient, will you pay me $100? In parallel, there is a related network function to say, “I’m not as interested in

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Catching Up On Readings: Tech Layoffs

This feature from Crunchbase covers the tech layoffs in 2022 and 2023. Over 58,000 people in U.S.-based tech companies have been laid off in mass job cuts so far in 2023 compared to 140,000 in 2022. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I want to close this segment of our discussion with a question. What, in your mind, are some of the open problems that you would like startups to go solve? Aneesh Chopra: Let’s go through the healthcare discussion we’ve had and identify a few examples along the way. In my dream world, there

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is your analysis of their potential to weave them into society? Aneesh Chopra: We are going to continue down the curve on the cost side. Early in the Obama administration, it cost roughly $2,000 to sequence a genome. We set a goal to get that profitably delivered for under $100 and we’re

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Best of Bootstrapping: Duda Co-founders Bootstrapped with Paychecks

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Itai Sadan is the Co-founder and CEO of Duda, a company that turns desktop websites into mobile sites. When we spoke in 2013, Itai had over 10 years of experience in business development, partner management, program management, and development. Prior to founding Duda (formerly

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