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<title><![CDATA[Why SXSW&'s party in Austin matters]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Internet, like soylent green, is made of people. And startups can never get enough.That&amp;'s the insight I&amp;'ve gathered from years of attending South By Southwest Interactive, the annual conference/festival/five-day rave held every year in Austin in conjunction with the more established SXSW film and music festivals. (You can show your veteran status, or fake it, by calling it &amp;''South By.&amp;'') The streets of Texas&amp;'s capital city are swarming with San Franciscans' I knew a half-dozen people on my JetBlue flight.So why do so many people pick up and hang out in Texas for a week Because they have jobs to fill, and the people they need are all here.I&amp;'ve called SXSW a &amp;''pointless party&amp;'' and ridiculed it as &amp;''spring break for Web developers.&amp;'' But there&amp;'s something to be said for getting out and meeting people in a new place, unmoored from your usual routines. Sure, there are panels, but it&amp;'s really about the hobnobbing in the Austin Convention Center&amp;'s long, long hallways and the parties that roll into the night. People are trying to connect on a deeper level around shared passions &amp;8212' here, mostly consumer Web startups and the possibilities that unfold when you connect social experiences with the Internet.It&amp;'s not about the products that launch at SXSW. I have sympathy, even admiration for startups brave enough to run the SXSW gauntlet of skeptical, demanding geeks in the hopes of getting dubbed the next Twitter or Foursquare, to name two startups that won buzz here. But really, if you can find one great developer at a party, consider it a win.Yesterday, right before I grabbed my bags and headed to the airport, I moderated a panel at the Unleashed Talent conference in San Francisco on the topic of recruiting. One of the panelists, Ethan Bloch, the founder of Flowtown, a startup that aims to turn your most passionate customers into a virtual sales force for your product, struck me as singularly obsessed with recruiting.Bloch told the audience he spends 90 percent of his time recruiting, doing everything from writing scripts that monitor GitHub, a collaborative source-code repository favored by Ruby on Rails programmers, for the most productive users to scanning Dribbble, a design-sharing site, for creative user-experience types.In a similar vein, Peter Kazanjy, the CEO of professional-reviews site Honestly.com, mentioned during the panel that he&amp;'d built SocialLink, a FireFox Web browser add-on that helps users find a LinkedIn connection on Facebook or Twitter. (Among other things, this helps you evade a charge LinkedIn imposes to send messages to users that aren&amp;'t in your professional network.)Other panelists, like BranchOut founder Rick Marini and Top Prospect&amp;'s Rotem Perelmuter, emphasized the importance of constantly recruiting by mining social graphs, the mapped-out connections between people on social networks like Facebook. (Not surprisingly, their startups help you do just that: BranchOut is a professional network, not unlike LinkedIn, but one that lives within Facebook as an app, while Top Prospect helps companies extend the referral rewards usually given to employees for a successful new hire to their wider circle of friends and acquaintances.)Jobvite CEO Dan Finnigan pointed out that this approach is singularly effective: Referrals that come through employees&amp;' social networks are 12 times more likely to result in a hire than over-the-transom applications. And they&amp;'re cheaper, too &amp;8212' the cost of a referral hire might be in the range of $3,000 to $5,000, while a professional recruiter could easily start at $20,000 to $25,000 per completed hire. (At the panel, venture capitalist Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners sarcastically quizzed Bloch on his recruiting productivity, finally getting Bloch to admit that for all the time he&amp;'d spent since January scouring websites for &amp;''world-class&amp;'' candidates, he&amp;'d only made one hire so far. But at those rates, I&amp;'d say Bloch&amp;'s doing okay.)Against that backdrop, a conference pass, a plane ticket to Austin, and a few nights in a hotel seem cheap. So party on, South By geeks. If you can make just one whip-smart, talented new friend whom you bring back home to headquarters, you&amp;'ve paid your own way.(Oh, and by the way, VentureBeat is hiring.)Next Story: On the GreenBeat: Toyota sells 3M hybrid cars, Progress Energy drops $500M for smart power grids Previous Story: Zynga prepares launch of expansion game FarmVille English CountrysidePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: recruiting, South by Southwest, South By Southwest Interactive, sxsw, SXSW 2011, Unleashed TalentCompanies: BranchOut, Flowtown, Honestly.com, Jobvite, Top ProspectPeople: Dan Finnigan, Ethan Bloch, Peter Kazanjy, Rick Marini, Rotem Perelmuter          Tags: recruiting, South by Southwest, South By Southwest Interactive, sxsw, SXSW 2011, Unleashed TalentCompanies: BranchOut, Flowtown, Honestly.com, Jobvite, Top ProspectPeople: Dan Finnigan, Ethan Bloch, Peter Kazanjy, Rick Marini, Rotem PerelmuterOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. 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<title><![CDATA[How DrChrono brings a4Ahacker culturea4 to health care]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[DrChrono, part of the current class of startups incubated by Y Combinator, has already received some press for its iPad app, which moves many of a doctora4a4s basic bookkeeping tasks onto Applea4a4s device. But when I talked to co-founder and chief operating officer Daniel Kivatinos, I wanted to know how he plans to get the app into doctorsa4a4 hands.The key step, Kivatinos said, came at the urging of the Y Combinator team. The DrChrono app, which allows doctors to do things like take notes, write prescriptions, and access patient records on their iPad, actually launched shortly after Apple first released its tablet. At the time, the company charged a $2,500 set-up fee &amp;8212' after all this was a professional app providing real value to doctors. Kivatinos told me that YC partner Paul Graham has compared DrChrono to enterprise software company SAP, and SAP charges a big fee.But after joining YC, Kivatinos and his co-founder Michael Nusimow decided that if they really wanted to bring the incubator&amp;'s a4Ahacker culturea4 into the medical industry, they had to a4Alet the floodgates opena4 &amp;8212' so they made the app free.Now, more than 1,500 doctors have signed up to use the product, where less than 100 had signed up before (remember, this is an app for doctors, not consumers, so adjust your numbers expectations accordingly). DrChrono is now based on a a4Afreemiuma4 model, where doctors get the basic app for free, then pay extra for features like speech-to-text conversion (so a doctor could just talk into their iPad, and the app would convert their words into written notes) and electronic billing. Pricing starts at $99 per month.Still, even with the cheap-or-free pricing, it seems hard to believe that large medical institutions are going to become customers of a new startup. Kivatinos said that when he first started the company, he tried to work with hospitals but found that the sales process just took way too long. Instead, DrChrono is working with small, private practices that have one to five doctors. Those doctors are often eager to switch to an electronic system (the financial incentives offered by the Obama administration for doctors to switch to electronic records help), but they cana4a4t afford to pay tens of thousands of dollars.a4AIta4a4s almost like every doctor wants an iPad now,a4 Kivatinos said.Youa4a4ll probably be reading more about DrChrono soon. There are still some cool features that Kivatinos would like to add, such as allowing doctors to use Apple&amp;'s FaceTime ability to talk to patients. DrChrono will be demonstrating at YCa4a4s Demo Day today and tomorrow, and the company will also start holding training sessions in Apple stores in the next few months.Calling all mobile executives: This April 25-26, VentureBeat is hosting its inaugural VentureBeat Mobile Summit,  where we&amp;'ll debate the five key business and policy challenges facing  the mobile industry today. Participants will develop concrete,  actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry.  The invitation-only event, located at the scenic and relaxing Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, Calif., is limited to the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers. Request an invitation.Next Story: Rebecca Black&amp;'s awful &amp;''Friday&amp;'' song could be unstoppable on YouTube &amp;8212' 30M views and counting Previous Story: Nexon invests $5M in social game maker A Bit Lucky (exclusive)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: health care, iPadCompanies: DrChrono, Y CombinatorPeople: Daniel Kivatinos, Michael Nusimow          Tags: health care, iPadCompanies: DrChrono, Y CombinatorPeople: Daniel Kivatinos, Michael NusimowAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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