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Yes! Karius is great. They detect resistance genes to provide antibiotic sensitivity. We monitor the metabolic rate, that is how we do it faster.
Will hospitals be able to run your assay? If they have to send out to your lab then effectively it takes a lot longer to get a result.
Hi HN. My name is Mustafa Al-Adhami. I am the founder and CEO of Astek Diagnositcs Inc. ( https://astekdx.com ). We have a platform to determine antibiotic sensitivity in one hour. Every year, 1.7 million Americans are evaluated for sepsis - and too many die while waiting days for the correct antibiotic. Imagine a one-day-old baby having to wait twice as long as they have been alive to receive accurate treatment. Or…
Why did you go the YC route versus traditional biotech funding sources? And why did YC accept this versus “things that scale” like software?
Hi HN. My name is Mustafa Al-Adhami. I am the founder and CEO of Astek Diagnositcs Inc. ( https://astekdx.com ). We have a platform to determine antibiotic sensitivity in one hour. Every year, 1.7 million Americans are evaluated for sepsis - and too many die while waiting days for the correct antibiotic. Imagine a one-day-old baby having to wait twice as long as they have been alive to receive accurate treatment. Or…
What you're making here is the kind of Star Trek medicine that can really improve lives for millions of people. Kudos!
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By uploading said information you are claiming it is true. Whether other people believe it to be true depends on whether they trust you or otherwise have verified for themselves (which can also be asserted cryptographically). No digital technology can solve epistemology and tell you what is true - but that's not the point, and blockchain applications are not unique in this.
> No digital technology can solve epistemology and tell you what is true Exactly. So what is the point? Why is this better than GitHub?
I'm pretty sceptical of blockchain applications in general because it became one of the word examples of a technobabble buzzword, but in this case I can see the argument for it.
Hi HN. My name is Mustafa Al-Adhami. I am the founder and CEO of Astek Diagnositcs Inc. ( https://astekdx.com ). We have a platform to determine antibiotic sensitivity in one hour. Every year, 1.7 million Americans are evaluated for sepsis - and too many die while waiting days for the correct antibiotic. Imagine a one-day-old baby having to wait twice as long as they have been alive to receive accurate treatment. Or…
Congratulations.
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One of things I noticed that you guys have 6 founders. Could you elaborate a bit on that, how do you manage the role, segregate responsibilities and manage conflicts if any. I am asking just out of curiosity. I have noticed that in Indian start up you generally find alot of founder for eg. Housing.com
Assigning Roles is not so hard, as there are so many hats to wear when you are a founder - Operations, Sales, Account Management, Product, Lead Generation, Tech, and Investor relations. Since we are six guys, we bring multiple ideas on the table, and sometimes it is hard to choose the right one for the company. Like every company, we manage conflicts. I think we would see more than two cofounders in Indian companies,…
Are you guys located in US/India and China?
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> can still get you into debt if you don't pay back / pay min / pay late How exactly is your card different? Is there no obligation to make payments? If so, how many cards can I open?
We connect to your existing bank account and make the payments automatically to build credit. Traditional debit cards do not do this.
The only novel thing here is you are deceiving the processing networks by claiming your debit card is a credit card. My credit union tried to do the same thing many years ago (as a way to build credit for students) and it eventually got caught by the processing networks and recategorized. Within a month or two it dropped off everyone's credit reports and they were back to square one.
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We connect to your existing bank account and make the payments automatically to build credit. Traditional debit cards do not do this.
That is exactly what debit cards do. When you make a purchase the money is withdrawn from your account. The only novel thing here is you are deceiving the processing networks by claiming your debit card is a credit card. My credit union tried to do the same thing many years ago (as a way to build credit for students) and it eventually got caught by the processing networks and recategorized. Within a month or two it d…
We are an official Visa partner and deal directly with credit bureaus.
Hi, we’re Rob, April and Ivan, cofounders of DigiBuild ( https://digibuild.com/ ). We build construction software powered by blockchain. Our tools help large companies, like VCC Construction, improve the schedule and budget on projects and save over a million dollars annually. I grew up in construction with my dad and saw first hand the issues companies face everyday. The building process involves 50-100 stakeholders…
What is the purpose of putting the documents "in the blockchain"? If customers trust you, why not just build a normal database and put it there?
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What is the purpose of putting the documents "in the blockchain"? If customers trust you, why not just build a normal database and put it there?
Instant valuation multiplier for the startup.