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Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by kyro »

Congrats to Chas and the Aptible bunch. Really smart guys. Also saw they joined RockHealth. Tackling a ton of hard problems in healthcare to make it easy for people to build apps. Learned quite a bit about HIPAA compliance from their blog, but it seems like they've taken that stuff down, unfortunately.

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by chimeracoder »

kyro wrote: post #2

Congrats to Chas and the Aptible bunch. Really smart guys. Also saw they joined RockHealth. Tackling a ton of hard problems in healthcare to make it easy for people to build apps. Learned quite a bit about HIPAA compliance from their blog, but it seems like they've taken that stuff down, unfortunately.

Seconded - I could not be more excited for them (especially as a customer!). I know Chas & Frank from our days together in the Blueprint Health accelerator[0] (they were in the class before mine).

Aptible is going to allow a lot of people to enter the health-tech space when the costs would otherwise be prohibitive - it's going to be huge. Forcing every company to duplicate all that compliance work in-house makes no sense, just like having every company maintaining its own colo hardware makes no sense.

[0] http://www.blueprinthealth.org/

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by lukasm »

My prediction - in 4 year:

backpackbang will dodge the bullets and be valued 300mln

Biotech & Nuclear will continue research. One will yield value.

Rest will pivot, acquihire or die.

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by chasb »

kyro wrote: post #2

Congrats to Chas and the Aptible bunch. Really smart guys. Also saw they joined RockHealth. Tackling a ton of hard problems in healthcare to make it easy for people to build apps. Learned quite a bit about HIPAA compliance from their blog, but it seems like they've taken that stuff down, unfortunately.

Thanks kyro. We'll get some blog posts back up!

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by pariya »

So awesome that I've been tracking most of these companies without even realizing they were YC affiliated over the last few months. Love the Zenamins- what a great idea. I've been obsessed with Product Hunt. Seriously. I call it "The Vortex". I hope they all succeed.

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by necubi »

lukasm wrote: post #4

My prediction - in 4 year: backpackbang will dodge the bullets and be valued 300mln Biotech & Nuclear will continue research. One will yield value. Rest will pivot, acquihire or die.

Backpack isn't "kinda" illegal, gray-area, like AirBnB or Uber. It's straight-up, completely illegal. And this isn't municipality-level policies it's up against, it's customs and border, national law.

I can't see any future where they don't get shut down.

Re: YC Demo Day Session 4

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Post by lukasm »

necubi wrote: post #7
lukasm wrote: post #4

My prediction - in 4 year: backpackbang will dodge the bullets and be valued 300mln Biotech & Nuclear will continue research. One will yield value. Rest will pivot, acquihire or die.

Backpack isn't "kinda" illegal, gray-area, like AirBnB or Uber. It's straight-up, completely illegal. And this isn't municipality-level policies it's up against, it's customs and border, national law. I can't see any future where they don't get shut down.

prices are not the same within EU. There is an opportunity here.
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