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Most people in history didn't have much of a choice in their careers. They didn't consider work in terms of self-fulfillment but survival.
We have a different challenge today: Often we have too many possibilities. How then should we approach our options?
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Important work. How we talk about these tragedies matter.
Suicide is a leading cause of death & how we as journalists cover it can make a big difference. I've helped develop a free, online course to explain how to write & talk about it safely. Watch a quick explainer & consider enrolling: bit.ly/reportonsuicide
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"There are multiple dimensions to security.
Being in charge of their work lives allows independent workers to adjust to changing economic conditions rather than be subject to the whims of mercurial managers and employers." @HarvardBiz
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Great summary and informative thread. Thanks for sharing.
Getting access to capital markets is very important to grow becuase ISA programs have an awful cash conversion cycle.
You outlay a bunch of cash upfront and get paid back over time.
If you are cash-poor like most startups, this is hard to make work without capital markets.
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This is a great way to put it.
Many people advise to "speak up" but there is such thing as speaking too much. Balance is key.
Find The Balance Between Talking And Listening
People who always speak up, lose their voice in the room.
Everyone rolls their eyes.
People who never speak up, lose their voice in the room.
No one ever hears what they have to say.
Find the balance.
Great point about momentum. Thanks for sharing.
You string 2-3 good quarters in a row and you're a growth story and trade at a revenue multiple. You have a down 2-3 quarters, you're probably running into some working capital issues and are now 'distressed'. Those 2-3 quarters can literally have a 20x difference on your price.
Great point. Fewer academic exercises. Less playing around in preparation for the so-called "real world."
More action now.
3. Get young people out of these business plan/model/canvas/pitch competitions and get them building stuff.
If business schools spent half as much learning to build stuff as they do in PowerPoint and “validating demand” there would be 100x as many companies.
100%. Old concepts under new names.
In some cases, the market and health policy weren't ready before and are worth a revisit.
In many cases, they still aren't now.
Seeing the convos from health conferences on twitter makes me think 2 things. Since I became active in 2007, the conferences are flashier due to markedly more VC funding. But what people are talking about is almost entirely unchanged. Hot concepts cycle in and out and back again.
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I think this also applies to skill/knowledge.
For example, in medicine/healthcare: Fringe practitioners, homeopaths, etc. try to elevate the legitimacy of their approaches in this way.
It's ridiculous how little accountability there is around community benefit requirements, 340B discounts, etc.
"not-for-profit" hospital status is a scam
Top Sutter Health exec says health system doesn't have to provide charity care to be not-for-profit. modernhealthcare.com/hospita… via @modrnhealthcr
YouTube's health fund has been getting more credible medical content on the site.
A standalone site sounds interesting. Like WebMD, etc. but focused on videos? What would be the revenue model?
Could this idea work?
A platform for health + wellness content like YouTube but curated & vetted. A mix of patient influencers, nurses, doctors, therapists etc. talking about everything from skin care to recovering from surgery. Plus let creators share in the economics.
Lent is here. You can tell by:
1) the ash on people's foreheads today
2) all the ads for fast food fish sandwiches
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Even if the algorithms were accurate, this feels wrong all around.
The investigation also found Epic has paid some health systems up to $1 million in cash incentives based, in part, on their adoption of predictive algorithms.
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#Artificialintelligence
"Most companies aren't big enough to get a better deal by threatening to send their workers to competing hospitals, and they certainly can't make that threat in areas where there isn't any competition."
@bobjherman @axios
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“Tone-deaf compassion is more dangerous and costly than none at all.”
So true. Good intentions without understanding the needs of your audience (in this case, employees) will diminish trust.
@HarvardBiz
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New accelerator at @UCLAHealth - spoke with them today. They're looking for early-stage startups addressing problems caused/worsened by the pandemic, esp for vulnerable populations.
In case anyone is interested:
uclahealth.org/news/ucla-hea…
Congrats, Simon, Handoyo, and the @LyridInc team on your seed round!
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"Lazy language is a sign that you don’t really know what you’re making or who you’re making it for." - @PaulJun_
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