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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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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.

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

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mental Health Data.

Are you serious? It's data about corporations, not your shrink's notes from your consult.

HIPAA is a real thing. It is to be respected.

This study appears to be LLM generated so all confidence in it being a) accurate and b) respective of regulations has all gone out the window.

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

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post #6

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.

You suspect wrong. We did this report for ourselves to correct the strategy and decided to make it public. All data is accurately checked, all numbers and maths can be easily checked by yourself.

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

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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.'"

i would say yes it does. such startups have no future. the case of one of the most famous ai-therapy-replacers Woebot proved this by its bancrupcy and $100M+ investment burnt.
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