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Stanford StartX Demo Day

39 points by jhchen 15y ago

oakley 15y ago
StartX is a great accelerator that really values founder growth and education. Highly recommended for any Stanford founders.
- hturki 15y ago
  Agree 100%. As someone who's been through the program, I can attest that it's an amazing experience, and people behind it do a remarkable job of upping their game even more from session to session. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing the companies that come out of it in the years to come. Seeing as they take no equity and provide a ton of value, it really should be a no-brainer for any team with a founder with a Stanford affiliation to apply.
- ChuckMcM 15y ago
  I tend to agree with your comment, it does seem to be well focused on founder growth rather than being a strict high risk / high growth investment vehicle. My issue is that every time I see the headline 'StartX demo' I see this picture of someone at the console of a workstation demonstrating that when you type 'startx' all these giant rows of characters go away and are replaced by this really cool window system.
ThomPete 15y ago
Although I applaud the focus on health care in this batch I think the real issue is human rather than technological. Some years ago I did a project for an affiliate to the Danish health department. I was working on an interface that would allow for better tracking and thus early warning of a flu epidemic. This was done through doctors reporting when ever they had a patient. It turned out that the real bottleneck was to get the doctors to report. There simply wasn't the right incentive. I have also had other experiences within this field which made me realize just how hard a problem the human factor is. So it seems to me at least that they real challenge to solve is how to get the data into to the systems rather than the actual systems themselves. At least in Denmark (and we are pretty progressive when it comes to tech) this is a huge problem.
- jrockway 15y ago
  So it seems to me at least that they real challenge to solve is how to get the data into to the systems rather than the actual systems themselves. That's easy. Simply link the reporting system and payment system. In the US, doctors pick a super-specific set of diagnoses for each patient visit, and then send the insurance companies supporting data to ensure they get paid. There's your data.
  - ThomPete 15y ago
    I don't believe it's that easy, which is why it's not solved yet

39 points by jhchen 15y ago

StartX is a great accelerator that really values founder growth and education. Highly recommended for any Stanford founders.

hturki 15y ago
Agree 100%. As someone who's been through the program, I can attest that it's an amazing experience, and people behind it do a remarkable job of upping their game even more from session to session. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing the companies that come out of it in the years to come. Seeing as they take no equity and provide a ton of value, it really should be a no-brainer for any team with a founder with a Stanford affiliation to apply.
ChuckMcM 15y ago
I tend to agree with your comment, it does seem to be well focused on founder growth rather than being a strict high risk / high growth investment vehicle. My issue is that every time I see the headline 'StartX demo' I see this picture of someone at the console of a workstation demonstrating that when you type 'startx' all these giant rows of characters go away and are replaced by this really cool window system.

ThomPete 15y ago

Although I applaud the focus on health care in this batch I think the real issue is human rather than technological. Some years ago I did a project for an affiliate to the Danish health department. I was working on an interface that would allow for better tracking and thus early warning of a flu epidemic. This was done through doctors reporting when ever they had a patient. It turned out that the real bottleneck was to get the doctors to report. There simply wasn't the right incentive. I have also had other experiences within this field which made me realize just how hard a problem the human factor is. So it seems to me at least that they real challenge to solve is how to get the data into to the systems rather than the actual systems themselves. At least in Denmark (and we are pretty progressive when it comes to tech) this is a huge problem.

jrockway 15y ago
So it seems to me at least that they real challenge to solve is how to get the data into to the systems rather than the actual systems themselves. That's easy. Simply link the reporting system and payment system. In the US, doctors pick a super-specific set of diagnoses for each patient visit, and then send the insurance companies supporting data to ensure they get paid. There's your data.
- ThomPete 15y ago
  I don't believe it's that easy, which is why it's not solved yet