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czr80 | 10 years ago

Feel comfortable sharing one idea? Just curious, completely understand if you'd prefer not to.

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gmarx|10 years ago

Most of the ideas and products I attempted to get funded were around the idea of transforming the electronic medical record (in the broadest sense) from a mostly free text entity to a mostly well modeled discrete data entity. For more specific ideas I would be happy to discuss outside this board.

czr80|10 years ago

Thanks! It's a good idea, but I can see why it was hard getting funding - it's a difficult market to enter: a lot of people are trying to do this, including large well entrenched competitors, there's a high regulatory burden, and you're selling to a conservative customer base (doctors who need to change their working habits + hospital admin who need to make a significant investment).

(I'm sure you know all of that, by the way, just reflecting on how difficult it would be to convince an investor).

vonklaus|10 years ago

Search. Turns out everyone was wrong. The next google is actually a google.