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Humana partners with Heal and invests $100 million in the company’s doctor-on-demand service

TechCrunch LA

” That’s the way Nick Desai, the co-founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based startup Heal describes the future of traditional healthcare delivery. “ We think we are… an accelerant for the adoption of those services.” “The doctor’s office is dead.”

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8 Keys To Providing Consulting Services To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

I may be old fashioned, but the term consultant still conjures up an image of a self-proclaimed expert who can make great presentations, generate recommendations and leave you to do the hard work of implementation. Startups need outside experts who can do the work, as well as provide training on what needs to be done.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

socalTECH

For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.

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5 Unpleasant Startup Surprises and How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

By definition, every startup is predictably unpredictable, since new solutions have no proven track record, startups are usually building a new market, and the world around them is changing faster than ever. The market changes faster than your startup. The money runs out before revenues start.

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Celebrating the Life and Work of Tony Hsieh

Tech.Co

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors.

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3 Reasons SaaS Savvy Entrepreneurs Don’t Build Their Own Portals

InfoChachkie

Even entrepreneurs that already sold on SaaS should stake note of new research from the SalientGroup : SaaS gets funded - Nearly 50% of SaaS-based startups are getting successfully funded—a rate of funding success no other sector can match. Overall, according to Gartner, the SaaS market will top $22 billion by 2015. Maintenance costs.

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