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Startups Take Note: The Social Patient About To EXPLODE Healthcare

Startups Take Note: The Social Patient About To EXPLODE Healthcare | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Healthcare Is About To Explode
I have a friend, Mary Kay O'Connor founder of Starting Point (http://www.startingpnt.com/site/ ), who is about to jump off the roof. She's been selling, or attempting to sell, into healthcare for several years.

Healthcare is bureaucratic, infected with "Father Knows Best" syndrome, changing rapidly thanks to The Social Patient and ripe for the startup pickings. If your fabric is as TOUGH as my old boss Mary Kay's you may want to look HARD at healthcare since it is about to explode (whether it wants to or not). 

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Startups, Crowdfunding, Content & Curing Cancer Podcast Interview with @Curagami Founder Marty Smith

Startups, Crowdfunding, Content & Curing Cancer Podcast Interview with @Curagami Founder Marty Smith | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Martin (Marty) Smith talks to Get Social Health about the radical change in his life when he heard the words cancer and his name in the same sentence. Here is what Marty's done since his cancer diagnosis:


* Rode a bicycle across America (Martin's Ride To Cure Cancer).

* Founded CureCancerStarter.org one of first crowdfunding cancer research platforms.

* Founded Curagami, marketing tools to help content marketers and online merchants create community.

* Founded Tech Cures Cancer Fund at UNC Lineberger Cancer Center.

Wide ranging interview with  an entrepreneur and cancer survivor whose life is dedicate to helping and giving back.

Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

I'm blessed with amazing friends who help, help and hep some more. Marty

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5 Secret Patient Needs No One Is Working On via #tswhealth #TSWHealth #startups

5 Secret Patient Needs No One Is Working On via #tswhealth #TSWHealth #startups | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

After being the opening speaker at this weeks Startup Weekend in Durham, NC I came home and thought about 5 needs patients have that NO ONE is working on:

* Dedicated Flash Stores (tried but couldn't be mine off the ground NEEDED).
* Sponsors like AA, one one one guides.
* Flexible Projects.
* Storytellers.
* Assistants.

Solve any 2 of these problems and you will be a hero to millions. Let me know anyway I can help and will be glad to do so.

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Startup Trends 2014 II - via Curatti

Startup Trends 2014 II - via Curatti | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Startups are fun, creative & may be our best hope. This second of a two part Curatti series covers startup trends from digital homes to wearable tech.

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No sooner than I finished writing this second post in a 2 part series for http://www.curatti.com Editors of Chaos than one of the featured "Smart Home" startups sold to Google for $3.2B. Amazing.

If that doesn't make you want to fire up a startup and start tinkering nothing will :). M

This 2nd post in a two part series covers more than 25 cool startups from Smart Homes to wearable Tech:
http://curatti.com/startup-trends-2014-ii/

Be sure to share your favorites if we missed them.

William Newman's curator insight, January 14, 2014 7:13 AM

Start ups focusing on the internet of things, in-memory computing and location based services will dominate the news in 2014.