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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. True to my “health tech geek” roots, I have been awarded patents in the United States and Australia for remote biometric monitoring systems and data visualization technologies.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. So far, so good.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. I am not advocating adding no features at all.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them.