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Trump Team Outlines Healthcare Agenda—No Mention of Drug Prices

Xconomy

During the campaign, Trump’s official platform called for a change to let Medicare negotiate drug prices and for the re-importation of lower cost drugs from abroad—ideas that swim upstream against typical GOP positions. ” The few details provided in today’s post seem directly in line with Republican orthodoxy.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management.

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Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

socalTECH

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal.