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Re:A beginner's cheat sheet for web development on Friday September 20, 2013 @03:13PM (#6419892)
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Converting a portion of your everyday purchase into a charitable donation

If local businesses can get access to a mobile platform in which a portion of a consumer's purchase at their store becomes a charitable donation and the consumer shares that experience on their social media (kind of like a Foursquare check-in) would you use it?<p>How would you envision the way this social venture work?<p>I was thinking of some sort of QR payment app where the...

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How can we reduce medication cost?

There are all sorts of chronic disease ranging from diabetes, adhd, HIV, etc. And depending on the chronic conditions, medication costs are extremely expensive.This may be a stupid questions so please let me know if that is the case. But, I was wondering if there would be some sort of innovative approach to lower the cost of these medications through a flash-sale (i.e. groupon, fab.com, gilt)...

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An innovative business model for reducing medication cost

There are all sorts of chronic disease ranging from diabetes, adhd, HIV, etc. And depending on the chronic conditions, medication costs are extremely expensive.This may be a stupid questions so please let me know if that is the case. But, I was wondering if there would be some sort of innovative approach to lower the cost of these medications through a flash-sale (i.e. groupon, fab.com, gilt)...

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Any cool biotech or health-care related startups?

I am doing some general research on what kind of startups are out there trying to improve/disrupt the biotech/health-care/patient-care industry. Please let me know if you know of any interesting startups that are in these industries.

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How can we disrupt the agricultural industry with tech?

Does anybody have any ideas or recommendation on ways tech can improve the agricultural industry (i.e. food production, marketing, distribution, etc)? Are there any startups out there doing something pertaining to agriculture? I feel like there's a lot of potential in tapping into Agriculture 2.0.

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