Catching Up On Readings: Facebook Chasing Google

The stage is set for a battle between the big players as the way we use computing power continues to change. For Only Facebook Can Match Google’s Run, and all the week’s posts, click on the full article. >>>

Blueprint For Saving 11 Billion Dollars In Healthcare Costs: MD On-Line CEO Bill Bartzak (Part 4)

SM: You said that your target office is the small doctor’s office, yet you work with insurance companies. Your technology fills the gap between the two, but which one did you target from a strategic perspective?

BB: From 1998 on, insurance companies’ Web sites became more visible and prevalent. We were on the Oxford Health Web site as a solution to convert doctors from paper to electronic. >>>

What Is Good Teaching?

By Guest Author Joshua Fisher

How is the Internet changing the way you think? This is the Edge annual question for 2010—a question answered in various ways at Edge.org by a cadre of leading contributor-thinkers in fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and computer science, among many others. >>>

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: Allan Young

Allan Young writes with a somewhat different perspective in a post called The Startup Myth, warning entrepreneurs about existing in a perpetual startup mode and never getting to cruising altitude. He says: >>>

Blueprint For Saving 11 Billion Dollars In Healthcare Costs: MD On-Line CEO Bill Bartzak (Part 3)

SM: You essentially act as a translator between physicians’ offices and all of the various insurance companies because you can present insurance forms in each company’s preferred format. Is that a fair assessment?

BB: Yes, that is accurate. >>>

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: Tim Berry

Tim Berry says something that many of you have heard me say repeatedly at the roundtables: The Best Startup Funding Is Initial Sales. And yet, every week, I work with entrepreneurs who do not seem to listen to this simple piece of wisdom: >>>

Next Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Thursday, February 4

Sramana Mitra is offering this free online strategy roundtable to entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture.  Up to 1,000 people can attend, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas.  All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.  This hour-long session will begin at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST.

You can find more details and register here. >>>

January 28 Roundtable Recording

Here is the recording of yesterday’s roundtable: