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What happened with Mentum? The link is dead and there’s no founder comment on this thread. Edit: here’s their YC company profile https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mentum
Curious how YC decided to order these threads of companies. My guess is it's quite a bit worse to be in thread #9 than #1.
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> Will these tests be covered by the NHS? The marketing copy on the website seems to suggest this is for private healthcare ("All your private healthcare needs in one app") I will be interested to see how this goes, because the sentiment outlined in the OP can be quite controversial in the UK healthcare market ("while we appreciate the NHS, we also wished for a world where...") - for international context, the NHS em…
Over the last ~3 years I've noticed a lot more private healthcare being advertised direct to consumers, particularly in London and particularly targeting busy, high earning professionals. I'd have expected this to go down pretty poorly because while high earning busy people tend to be more open to spending to fix problems, the idea of paying for healthcare here is nuts – you either use NHS services, or your employer…
Some seemed to be trying to deliver NHS services (video/remote consultations available by "gig-working" GPs in evenings etc.), but others seemed to be increasingly trying to provide testing or other preventative/diagnostic services (blood tests, 7-day health check-ups booked same-day etc.)
I guess to some extent there likely will (among high earning, time-strapped immigrant workers) be an increased appetite to pay for healthcare directly, but for those who are aware of their immigration NHS access charge, they might well come to adopt the "I already pay for this" view. There's also a scalability question beyond London, where typical incomes mean the only people using any kind of private healthcare will be those with company-paid schemes.
There are some interesting ethical quandaries around what the NHS could do to improve its service (which could potentially hurt private sector rivals) - from some people's perspectives, the NHS could allow people paying privately to get things faster (without compromising on clinical need based priority) if it meant the service was better funded through revenues from those private patients going towards cutting wait times more generally. The British pastime of queueing could negatively impact on perceptions of anything like this though (even though you can already pay a little extra for an expedited next-day passport renewal etc.)
I know some hospital trusts have setups with private wards where NHS staff deliver private care (without bypassing priority by clinical need), and revenues from this are reinvested into regular services.
As with most YC acceptees, most here have “for x country/demographic/race/gender” Is the best path to forming a startup these days to take an already existing product and market it to a very specific niche while taking investment capital that rivals the revenue of pre-existing software? I don’t get it. Really.
Hi HN, we're Aakash and Siddhant of Jovian ( https://www.jovian.ai/ ). We run a 6-month program that helps working professionals with a background in programming, statistics or analytics land their first data science job. Four years ago, we quit our jobs and spent several months learning data science and deep learning. We completed several online courses, read some books, and participated in some Kaggle competitions.…
I always thought of Jovian as a lean business but this surprised me. Also are you planning to build the Notebook-like platform (that it was before) more or the future is only data science bootcamp?
Hey, we are Ismael and Sophia, co-founders of Chari ( https://www.chari.co/ ). Chari is an ecommerce and fintech app for proximity stores in North Africa. It allows them to order anything they resell in their store, get delivered in less than 24h and benefit from payment facilities. 80% of the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) consumption in North Africa, and in developing countries in general, goes through small mom…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Will these tests be covered by the NHS? The marketing copy on the website seems to suggest this is for private healthcare ("All your private healthcare needs in one app") I will be interested to see how this goes, because the sentiment outlined in the OP can be quite controversial in the UK healthcare market ("while we appreciate the NHS, we also wished for a world where...") - for international context, the NHS em…
Over the last ~3 years I've noticed a lot more private healthcare being advertised direct to consumers, particularly in London and particularly targeting busy, high earning professionals. I'd have expected this to go down pretty poorly because while high earning busy people tend to be more open to spending to fix problems, the idea of paying for healthcare here is nuts – you either use NHS services, or your employer…
Hey, we are Ismael and Sophia, co-founders of Chari ( https://www.chari.co/ ). Chari is an ecommerce and fintech app for proximity stores in North Africa. It allows them to order anything they resell in their store, get delivered in less than 24h and benefit from payment facilities. 80% of the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) consumption in North Africa, and in developing countries in general, goes through small mom…
FYI - For some reason clicking on England flag still redirects to French version.
Hey, we are Ismael and Sophia, co-founders of Chari ( https://www.chari.co/ ). Chari is an ecommerce and fintech app for proximity stores in North Africa. It allows them to order anything they resell in their store, get delivered in less than 24h and benefit from payment facilities. 80% of the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) consumption in North Africa, and in developing countries in general, goes through small mom…
When you say "free delivery" do you mean the distributor is delivering the products to the merchant for free? Is there a minimum order size? You note the idea of them ordering every day, are the goods moving that fast that it makes financial sense for daily orders? Normally these shops are ordering weekly or biweekly. Do you work with the Principals at all (e.g. Coca Cola) or just directly with the Distributors? Did…
We are using a transport management system to optimize our daily delivery routing. Shops are really close to each others , so it makes financial sense to daily deliver the same shops. There is no minimum order , however some elementary SKUs can’t be bought only by themselves .
We get our supplies from both the Principals and some exclusive distributors.
We start first by sending salesrep on the ground to train the users on how to use the app. Usually the first orders are made through our customer care team. It can take up to 3 months for a client to become autonomous and use the app by himself.