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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation.

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