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Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

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Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com

Start­up biotech com­pa­ny Tran­scrip­tic has raised $1.2 mil­lion in a seed fund­ing round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ven­tures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and pri­vate investors Mark Cuban and Naval Ravikant.…

RT @TechCrunch: Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel http://flip.it/5mgni by @catherineshu http://flip.it/Z2oo3

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Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

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Michael V. Copeland, wired.com

Mary Meeker
Mary Meeker (Photo credit: niallkennedy)

Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too.

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Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

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Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

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Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech
cnn.com

Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better.

By Vinod Khosla

FOR­TUNE — Health­care today is often real­ly the “prac­tice of med­i­cine” rather than the…

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Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors

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Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors

By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Science

Machines will replace 80 per­cent of doc­tors in a health­care future that will be dri­ven by entre­pre­neurs, not med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, accord­ing to Sun Microsys­tems co-founder Vinod Khosla.

Khosla, who wrote an arti­cle enti­t…

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Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs

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Just finished a great class!
Just finished a great class! (Photo credit: brewbooks)

 

Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com.

 

Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will provide interactive courses in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering using the inverted Khan Academy model of knowledge management and partnering with top universities including Stanford,  University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. It has secured $16 million in venture capital.

 

Unlike many new startups, the business model is becoming clear. From a community of millions of learners some should ‘opt in’ for valuable, premium services. Those revenues should fund investment in tools, technology and royalties to faculty and universities.” In fact there is a fear that these startups will “disintermediate” universities by spotting the brightest talents among students and hiring them directly. Other startups include Minerva. For essays, students help by grading each other’s work and providing peer coaching (with an average 22 minute response time).

 

The companies are providing real world ROI examples including workers who have been able to keep their jobs by upgrading their skills or solve difficult problems such as the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan.

 

 

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