CareSeek taps nurse community amid a glut of “me-too” Health 2.0 startups
Like any other Internet craze, Health 2.0 is plagued with a glut of startups that are all doing variations on the same thing — health-related search, social communities, and physician ratings/directories.
So how do startups make it when one site looks much like the next? Over at VentureBeat Life Sciences, we take a look at CareSeek, a doctor-rating and would-be community site that specifically aims to attract nurses and other caregivers — in other words, to go deep where others go broad. Check it out.
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About the Author, David P. Hamilton
David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.
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