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Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

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Re: Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

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Post by palmotea »

Does this include the several stupid "thin wrapper on ChatGPT to 'help' people with depression/ADHD/etc." startups that I recall from about two seconds after ChatGPT came out?

Basically: "I want to be a founder, I have no expertise and a superficial understanding of the domain but I've got some tech, so here's a non-solution I'm selling as 'the best thing ever for you.'"

Re: Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

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Post by jabiko »

Starting at page 20, the report looks like someone let AI create a HTML page and then just converted it to PDF. There are misplaced "Calendar", "Money Bag" and "Globe" emojis floating above the title of each startup analysis.

I suspect that nobody, including the authors, ever read this 391 page report.

Re: Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

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Post by anigbrowl »

orsenthil wrote: post #3

Shouldn't this be a private dataset?

Why? OP has assembled it out of public information via company filings etc., and is releasing it as a supplement to a report to the field. It seems like you didn't read the accompanying notes at all.

Re: Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

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Post by calvinmorrison »

palmotea wrote: post #5

Does this include the several stupid "thin wrapper on ChatGPT to 'help' people with depression/ADHD/etc." startups that I recall from about two seconds after ChatGPT came out? Basically: "I want to be a founder, I have no expertise and a superficial understanding of the domain but I've got some tech, so here's a non-solution I'm selling as 'the best thing ever for you.'"

how about "this is illegal but with we have VC and an app it's now totally OK", see Uber's playbook.
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