Kyle Samani — Investor, Builderhttps://kylesamani.com/https://kylesamani.com/posts/prop-am-ms-the-future-of-market-microstructure/https://kylesamani.com/posts/prop-am-ms-the-future-of-market-microstructure/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/dont-be-short-intelligence/https://kylesamani.com/posts/dont-be-short-intelligence/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/double-zero-ibrl/https://kylesamani.com/posts/double-zero-ibrl/Today, DoubleZero (DZ) launched onto mainnet-beta. Multicoin Capital co-led a $28M investment round in DoubleZero earlier this year. Blockchains are globally distributed systems. The core L1 teams...Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/creating-the-worlds-leading-solana-treasury-company/https://kylesamani.com/posts/creating-the-worlds-leading-solana-treasury-company/Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital, Jump Crypto (the largest trading firm in crypto), and Galaxy (the largest financial conglomerate in crypto) have successfully led a $1.65B PIPE...Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/all-in-summit-internet-capital-markets/https://kylesamani.com/posts/all-in-summit-internet-capital-markets/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/new-modalities-for-issuance-and-trading/https://kylesamani.com/posts/new-modalities-for-issuance-and-trading/It is effectively impossible for a regular person to create a new tradeable asset on traditional financial rails. Crypto trivializes this. Today, anyone in the world can create new assets on Solana...Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-solana-thesis-internet-capital-markets/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-solana-thesis-internet-capital-markets/Multicoin Capital has been investing in Solana’s native asset, SOL, and the broader Solana ecosystem since Solana’s seed round in May 2018. We have previously published four theses about Solana in...Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/p2p-pipes/https://kylesamani.com/posts/p2p-pipes/The first large scale P2P application on the Internet was Napster (email/SMTP was designed to be P2P and self-hosted, but in practice ended up federated). The spiritual successor to Napster was the...Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/enter-the-wormhole/https://kylesamani.com/posts/enter-the-wormhole/Crypto is going multichain and needs a secure but flexible interoperability platform to connect the industry. Wormhole is one of the leading solutions in the market with a full-stack interoperability...Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-holy-grail-of-cryptography/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-holy-grail-of-cryptography/In some sense, every server-side security vulnerability or exploit over the last 30 years shares the same root cause: some sensitive piece of data was left unencrypted (or an attacker gained access...Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-foundational-defi-primitive-of-filecoin/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-foundational-defi-primitive-of-filecoin/The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) launched on March 14, 2023 (pi day). There is nothing else in crypto quite like the FVM. It allows developers to bind payments and DeFi to real world primitives on...Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-dawn-of-on-chain-fhe/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-dawn-of-on-chain-fhe/The two most challenging technical problems in crypto have been clear for a decade: scaling and confidentiality. Most of the discourse in the industry is around scaling; meanwhile, a handful of teams...Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-hidden-costs-of-modular-systems/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-hidden-costs-of-modular-systems/Editor’s note: This post is a spiritual successor to Technical Scalability Creates Social Scalability. Click here to read it. Over the past two years, the scaling debate has narrowed and fixated on...Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-convergence-of-crypto-and-ai-four-key-intersections/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-convergence-of-crypto-and-ai-four-key-intersections/Editor’s Note: The vast majority of this blog post, including most of the title, was written by ChatGPT. Text that Kyle wrote is in italic. You can see the dialogue with ChatGPT that resulted in this...Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/web3-native-sql/https://kylesamani.com/posts/web3-native-sql/In the first wave of crypto innovation after Bitcoin, many developers forked the Bitcoin codebase to try to build other decentralized infrastructure and applications beyond digital gold. Some of the...Wed, 19 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/full-stack-decentralized-security/https://kylesamani.com/posts/full-stack-decentralized-security/The design space of cyber security is vast. There are an infinite number of attack vectors across chips and instruction sets, operating systems, runtimes, and applications. And naturally, there are...Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/unlocking-payments-over-crypto-rails/https://kylesamani.com/posts/unlocking-payments-over-crypto-rails/Since the advent of Bitcoin, people have been talking about the inevitability of crypto-based payments. And yet, 13 years since the launch of Bitcoin, payments over crypto rails have not yet entered...Wed, 07 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/beyond-verticalization-of-nft-marketplaces/https://kylesamani.com/posts/beyond-verticalization-of-nft-marketplaces/Why is the UX of OpenSea and Magic Eden generally the same (discovery on homepage, basic set of linear filters on the left side of collection pages, same search presentation, etc.)? Or, framed...Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/building-bridges/https://kylesamani.com/posts/building-bridges/18 months ago, Ethereum was the only Layer 1 asset ledger that mattered. Today, there are over a dozen major asset ledgers across Layer 1— Ethereum, Solana, Luna, Polygon, Celo, Flow, Avalanche,...Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/move-move-move/https://kylesamani.com/posts/move-move-move/Broadly speaking, there are two ways to think about scaling blockchains: break them into smaller pieces and try to connect them, or optimize and scale a single shard. Rollups and sharding are the...Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/rebundling-the-audio-value-chain/https://kylesamani.com/posts/rebundling-the-audio-value-chain/Until the advent of Napster, the record label bundle consisted of three things: 1. Risk-sharing — Record labels were VCs that invested in artists. The substantial majority of those investments were...Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/composable-web3-compute/https://kylesamani.com/posts/composable-web3-compute/Computers do three things, and only three things: 1. Store data 2. Compute over data 3. Send data to other computers (who in turn store data, process data, and send data to other computers,...Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-composable-web3-data-network/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-composable-web3-data-network/A few months ago at the 2021 Multicoin Summit, I gave a keynote presentation highlighting composability as the most important development in crypto in 2022. Although that presentation specifically...Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/rendering-the-metaverse/https://kylesamani.com/posts/rendering-the-metaverse/Over the last year, Fortnite has pushed the boundaries for large scale synchronous online virtual worlds via concerts (Travis Scott and Ariana Grande on Fortnite). In hindsight, these concerts will...Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/daos-manage-risk/https://kylesamani.com/posts/daos-manage-risk/This essay is a spiritual successor to On Value Capture at Layers 1 and 2. It also builds on some ideas from On Forking DeFi Protocols. In those essays, we explored potential value capture...Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/scaling-reads-and-writes/https://kylesamani.com/posts/scaling-reads-and-writes/A blockchain is a database with unique trust-minimization properties. Like all databases, there are two kinds of operations: reads and writes. Most of the discourse to date around scaling...Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/networked-cash-flows/https://kylesamani.com/posts/networked-cash-flows/DeFi is the most useful application of blockchains. We spend a meaningful percentage of our time thinking about DeFi, and learning from the best DeFi entrepreneurs who are building the future of...Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/technical-scalability-creates-social-scalability/https://kylesamani.com/posts/technical-scalability-creates-social-scalability/This essay assumes familiarity with Nick Szabo’s essay on Social Scalability, Vitalik Buterin’s essay on Weak Subjectivity, and Haseeb Qureshi’s essay on Why Decentralization Isn’t As Important As...Mon, 24 May 2021 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/open-audio/https://kylesamani.com/posts/open-audio/The first Internet-enabled application I can remember enjoying was Napster. It was 1999, and I was downloading songs at a blazing fast 2.96 KB / second. On good days, it would tick up to 3.13 KB /...Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/defis-invisible-asymptotes/https://kylesamani.com/posts/defis-invisible-asymptotes/With the growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem over the last 24 months, I’ve been thinking about protocol-level defensibility and market size. I wrote about the former recently. This...Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-forking-defi-protocols/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-forking-defi-protocols/As a suite of new layer 1 blockchains are launching, I’ve been thinking about Ethereum’s network effects, and the defensibility of the DeFi protocols built on top of Ethereum. A couple of years ago,...Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke-part-2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke-part-2/Note: A few days ago I published a postmortem detailing") how the crypto market structure broke on March 12. This post, Part 2, will explore the potential solutions to some of the systemic problems...Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke/https://kylesamani.com/posts/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke/Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series. To read Part 2, about the solutions to the problems discussed below, click here"). There were two large downward moves in the crypto markets on...Mon, 16 Mar 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/infinite-scale/https://kylesamani.com/posts/infinite-scale/Today, the vast majority of economic activity is conducted via corporations. Corporations were invented in the 1400s, with the first versions manifesting as joint-stock companies. Capital structures,...Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-web3-stack-2019-edition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-web3-stack-2019-edition/A year ago, I illustrated the Web3 stack as I understood it at the time. I have learned more, and the ecosystem has evolved since then, so I decided to update the Web3 stack. Whereas the 2018...Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/investing-in-the-permaweb/https://kylesamani.com/posts/investing-in-the-permaweb/Today I’m excited to announce our investment in Arweave, a new protocol and blockchain pioneering an entirely new idea: permanent data storage. Arweave is the foundation of the Permaweb, a critical...Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/exchanges-are-open-finance/https://kylesamani.com/posts/exchanges-are-open-finance/The largest profit centers of crypto—the exchanges—are generally under analyzed from a strategic lens, especially given their systemic importance to the space as a whole. This is especially true...Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-world-computer-should-be-logically-centralized/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-world-computer-should-be-logically-centralized/Vitalik conceived Ethereum as the world computer: a single, composable, open, permissionless state machine that could run trust-minimized code. And while Ethereum was a breakthrough on many...Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/unbundling-vectors-of-centralization-in-web3/https://kylesamani.com/posts/unbundling-vectors-of-centralization-in-web3/A year ago I illustrated the Web3 stack as I understood it at the time. More recently, I published Multicoin’s crypto mega theses, detailing the investment thesis for Web3. As I highlighted, one of...Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-torus/https://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-torus/Today I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has led a $2M seed round in Torus, including participation from Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Accomplice, Sixth Horizon, and Terminal. Key...Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-dfuse/https://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-dfuse/I’m excited to announce that Multicoin Capital has co-led a $3.5M investment in dfuse with Intel Capital, including participation from Diagram Ventures. For developers coming from traditional...Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-unbundling-of-ethereum/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-unbundling-of-ethereum/Software is the encoding of human thought, and as such software is limited only by our collective imagination. Ethereum embraced this as the first computer that allowed anyone to program arbitrary...Thu, 23 May 2019 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-value-capture-at-layers-1-and-2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-value-capture-at-layers-1-and-2/Among the crypto development and investor communities, the most popular term is “protocol,” and for good reason. Everyone is building a protocol (and presumably these protocols offer investors and...Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/binance-coin-analysis-and-valuation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/binance-coin-analysis-and-valuation/Your margin is my opportunity. -Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon Binance is the crypto exchange that best exemplifies Bezos’s famous quote. The industry leading exchange charges the lowest fees...Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-the-graph/https://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-the-graph/I’m proud to announce that Multicoin has led a $2.5M seed round in The Graph. We believe that The Graph is going to be one of the most important protocols in the Web3 stack. But before jumping into...Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/12-markets-crypto-decentralization-can-actually-improve/https://kylesamani.com/posts/12-markets-crypto-decentralization-can-actually-improve/This post originally appeared as a contributed article on Coindesk on December 27, 2018. Click here to read the post. Over the last 20 years, a lot of companies have built large online marketplaces...Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/questions-from-the-crypto-idea-maze/https://kylesamani.com/posts/questions-from-the-crypto-idea-maze/As 2018 comes to a close, we’ve been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer. Although there is some clarity on the mega theses for crypto —1) global, state-free...Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/new-models-for-token-distribution/https://kylesamani.com/posts/new-models-for-token-distribution/Crypto networks are supposed to be decentralized. As Balaji Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase, has written, decentralization can be measured in a number of dimensions. One of the most important but least...Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-starkware/https://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-starkware/Today we’d like to announce Multicoin Capital’s investment in StarkWare’s $30M Series A financing alongside a cast of other great investors, including: Paradigm, Sequoia, Intel Capital, DCVC, Wing,...Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/100-trillion/https://kylesamani.com/posts/100-trillion/Last Friday, Yale, the iconic long-term investor that other endowments look to for guidance, made a historic investment in two funds dedicated to crypto, signaling to many that institutional...Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-skale/https://kylesamani.com/posts/our-investment-in-skale/Today I’m extremely excited to announce that we led a $9.65M investment round in SKALE. SKALE is the first solution that delivers a commercially usable Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on a plasma...Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/aggregation-theory-thin-protocols-and-recentralization-augur-edition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/aggregation-theory-thin-protocols-and-recentralization-augur-edition/Joel Monegro of PlaceholderVC wrote Fat Protocols in 2016. Based on the data at the time – specifically that Union Square Ventures would have generated higher returns by simply buying and holding...Tue, 07 Aug 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-web3-stack/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-web3-stack/I have yet to see an actual illustration of the Web3 stack. So this is an attempt. Given how expansive the Web3 ecosystem is, this diagram is almost certainly incomplete, and likely has a few...Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-the-network-effects-of-stores-of-value/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-the-network-effects-of-stores-of-value/This post is a spiritual successor to The Smart Contract Network Effect Fallacy. Bitcoin has a network effect. Many crypto evangelists assert that the network effect of Bitcoin is so strong that...Tue, 08 May 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/https://kylesamani.com/posts/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are not yet mature. Like computers from the 80s and 90s, although they technically work, they’re fragile in practice. As such, most of their users are technical, and...Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/eos-analysis-and-valuation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/eos-analysis-and-valuation/We recorded a podcast and webinar discussing our EOS report and answering questions from the community. To listen and download, click here. An executive summary is presented below. Download our...Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/opportunities-for-blockchain-based-social-apps/https://kylesamani.com/posts/opportunities-for-blockchain-based-social-apps/There are a few commonly cited arguments on why it makes sense to build social media platforms on top of blockchains, and how these benefits will enable upstart social media protocols to displace...Sun, 08 Apr 2018 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/paths-to-100t/https://kylesamani.com/posts/paths-to-100t/There are three fundamental hypotheses that attempt to answer the question, “What path will the super mega winner(s) in crypto take?” In this post, I’ll detail each of these hypotheses. Note that...Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/delegated-proof-stake-features-tradeoffs/https://kylesamani.com/posts/delegated-proof-stake-features-tradeoffs/A short overview is presented below. To download our full 19-page report, please click the PDF link. Intro Distributed ledgers don’t easily scale. That fact has become readily apparent in the...Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/models-scaling-trustless-computation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/models-scaling-trustless-computation/Each of the major smart contract platforms is making a unique set of trade-offs. These trade-offs are not simply the presence or absence of specific features, but rather represent fundamentally...Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/new-models-utility-tokens/https://kylesamani.com/posts/new-models-utility-tokens/There are three types of cryptoassets: stores of value, security tokens, and utility tokens. General-purpose stores of value should be valued using the equation of exchange because these currencies...Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/opportunity-interoperable-chains-chains/https://kylesamani.com/posts/opportunity-interoperable-chains-chains/Today, blockchain interoperability is virtually non-existent. If you want to move value across chains, you must do so by moving tokens into a centralized exchange, trade on the exchange’s in-house...Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/iota-miota-analysis/https://kylesamani.com/posts/iota-miota-analysis/An executive summary is presented below. Download our complete 12-page analysis: Thanks to all who attended our first live conversation. A recording of the conversation is available for download...Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/bear-case-xrp-bitcoin-futures-edition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/bear-case-xrp-bitcoin-futures-edition/In August, we published an analysis of XRP, the native token of the Ripple network. We presented a bearish view of XRP tokens. A quick summary: Ripple, Inc. – the company that builds and maintains...Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/0x-zrx-analysis-valuation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/0x-zrx-analysis-valuation/An executive summary is presented below. Download our complete 19 page analysis, including full valuation and price targets: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 0x is a protocol for decentralized exchange (DEX) of...Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-token-velocity/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-token-velocity/Basically, all token pitches include a line that goes something like this: “There is a fixed supply of tokens. As demand for the token increases, so must the price.” This logic fails to take into...Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/crypto-franchising-new-old/https://kylesamani.com/posts/crypto-franchising-new-old/Franchising is a widely understood model for retail food businesses. Many of the oldest and most successful retail food businesses in the world are franchises: McDonald’s, Subway, etc. Newer retail...Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/crypto-acquisitions-theory-no-practice/https://kylesamani.com/posts/crypto-acquisitions-theory-no-practice/Many have asked “how would a merger or acquisition work in crypto?” Although a merger could work in theory, in practice it’s not possible. The economics, individual sovereignty, and lack of drag...Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/state-decentralized-storage/https://kylesamani.com/posts/state-decentralized-storage/Society is transitioning from the industrial age to the information age, and data is becoming the world’s most valuable resource. As humans continue to generate countless petabytes of data, the...Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/bitcoin-better-digital-gold/https://kylesamani.com/posts/bitcoin-better-digital-gold/A common phrase used to explain Bitcoin is “Bitcoin is digital gold.” This statement implies a few things: 1. People will always value gold (because people have always valued gold), even if it’s not...Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/factom-fct-analysis-valuation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/factom-fct-analysis-valuation/An executive summary is presented below. Download our complete 16 page analysis by clicking the button in the upper right corner. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Factom is a blockchain protocol built to...Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-crypto-regulations/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-crypto-regulations/In light of the recent actions by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and People’s Bank of China, we’re receiving a lot of questions about regulation. In this post, we’ll provide some...Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/xrp2017/https://kylesamani.com/posts/xrp2017/An executive summary is presented below. Download our complete 12-page analysis. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ripple is a blockchain protocol for inter-bank settlements. Unlike many other blockchains, Ripple...Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/network-effect-fallacy/https://kylesamani.com/posts/network-effect-fallacy/Ethereum is unquestionably the market leading smart contract platform. It’s the oldest and most mature. It likely has the best protocol developers and certainly has the best community. Developer...Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/rep2017/https://kylesamani.com/posts/rep2017/An executive summary is presented below. Augur-REP-Analysis-and-Valuation Download our complete 13 page analysis, including full valuation and price target. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Augur is a...Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/venture-capital-economics-with-public-market-liquidity/https://kylesamani.com/posts/venture-capital-economics-with-public-market-liquidity/Traditional venture capital firms typically invest in the equity of young, fast-growing, technology startups. Each individual investment is risky: 75% of venture-backed companies fail to return...Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/announcing-multicoin-capital/https://kylesamani.com/posts/announcing-multicoin-capital/Today, Tushar Jain and I are excited to announce the next chapter of our careers: Multicoin Capital. Multicoin Capital is a fund that invests exclusively in liquid cryptoassets like Bitcoin,...Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/tesla-is-not-a-car-company/https://kylesamani.com/posts/tesla-is-not-a-car-company/Tesla may be a car company today, but Tesla won’t be a car company in 15 years. Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. They may still produce cars, but cars...Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:35:30 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/spectacles-and-snaps-20b-valuation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/spectacles-and-snaps-20b-valuation/Some quick numbers: 2016 Revenue: $515M (up about 6x year over year due to artificially restricted advertising revenue prior to 2016) 2016 Expenses: $919M 2016 Operating Loss: $404M To justify a...Wed, 26 Apr 2017 02:25:56 GMTtechnologyvaluationstrategyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/rethinking-the-customer-relationship-in-medtech-pfyxq/https://kylesamani.com/posts/rethinking-the-customer-relationship-in-medtech-pfyxq/This post was originally featured on TechCrunch. In light of Dollar Shave Club’s recent sale, I started thinking about other industries that haven’t yet rethought the customer relationship by...Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:13:56 GMTmedtechbusinessmodelhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/in-what-contexts-should-messaging-be-the-ui/https://kylesamani.com/posts/in-what-contexts-should-messaging-be-the-ui/Note: this post was originally featured on TechCrunch. Also, I advise Well, which is mentioned in this post. The current messaging hype is overstated. There are certainly some interesting and unique...Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:29:42 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-does-sales-ops-matter-ia5yj/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-does-sales-ops-matter-ia5yj/Credit to InsideSales.com for the graphic. This post is intended for B2B SaaS founders. “Companies fail for one of two reasons: spending too much money before achieving product/market fit, and not...Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:24:58 GMTsalesentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-founders-should-blog/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-founders-should-blog/Blogging is one of the highest ROI tactics that founders can employ to accelerate growth across the company: revenue or users, employees, and investors. It’s often times not obvious how blogging can...Tue, 10 May 2016 14:04:18 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-it-so-much-more-difficult-for-healthcare-providers-to-adopt-health-it-than-medtech/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-it-so-much-more-difficult-for-healthcare-providers-to-adopt-health-it-than-medtech/Medicine has made great strides over the last 50 years. Modern medicine looks a lot different than the medicine of 1966. Today providers are 3d printing bones, replacing organs, and conducting...Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:11:26 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/zp67uhx9sz20311spbhkjk0t1a20r5/https://kylesamani.com/posts/zp67uhx9sz20311spbhkjk0t1a20r5/All of the tech giants are investing at virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). For players like Apple, the target business model is obvious: sell high-end, polished consumer experiences at...Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:04:47 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/its-not-about-me-its-all-about-you-9ulfc/https://kylesamani.com/posts/its-not-about-me-its-all-about-you-9ulfc/Google “common salesforce stage names.” You’ll find a bunch of articles that outline the basic sales process. Depending on the assumed annual contract value (ACV) of the article, you’ll typically see...Fri, 04 Mar 2016 04:55:01 GMTsalesentrehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/should-your-startup-go-full-stack/https://kylesamani.com/posts/should-your-startup-go-full-stack/I’ve written about the problems associated with selling into value chains where there are disparate P&Ls. In this post, I’ll dive into the solution to this problem: going full stack. I’ll also cover...Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:24:07 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-tv-os-of-the-future-will-decouple-video-and-software/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-tv-os-of-the-future-will-decouple-video-and-software/I was at the Formula 1 US Grand Prix a few weeks ago. It was pretty awesome, even though I couldn’t see the cars travel the entirety of the 3 mile track due to the hills. To mitigate this, I used the...Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:31:53 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/first-time-entrepreneurs-should-avoid-hot-sectors/https://kylesamani.com/posts/first-time-entrepreneurs-should-avoid-hot-sectors/I like shiny new objects. Pristine was birthed out of my draw to the shiniest of new objects at the time, Google Glass. Most first-time founders are drawn to shiny new objects too. As such, it’s easy...Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:28:58 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/innovate-myopically/https://kylesamani.com/posts/innovate-myopically/Everyone loves to talk about innovation these days. Big companies are setting up “innovation labs” in droves. Startups in particular love to innovate. After all, who doesn’t love to...Mon, 30 Nov 2015 02:11:45 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/thoughts-on-drones/https://kylesamani.com/posts/thoughts-on-drones/I’ve been thinking about drones a lot lately. Obviously the technology component is really cool, but more importantly, drones shatter some fundamental assumptions about business. Below are some...Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:04:03 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/bitcoin-will-disrupt-working-capital-management-fbjge/https://kylesamani.com/posts/bitcoin-will-disrupt-working-capital-management-fbjge/I’ve been thinking a lot about bitcoin lately. And thus, I’ve been talking to people about it. Even some of the smartest people I speak with though are still skeptical. So I thought I’d write out why...Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:05 GMTeconomicstechnologybitcoinhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/cost-is-king/https://kylesamani.com/posts/cost-is-king/I recently listened to an a16z podcast about disruption theory. I’m a big fan of the theory and have been thinking a lot about it lately. The most important facet of the theory is cost. Incumbents...Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:53:36 GMTeconomicstechnologyentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/autonomous-cars-break-uber/https://kylesamani.com/posts/autonomous-cars-break-uber/As Bill Gurley (General Partner at Benchmark and board member of Uber) notes, Uber will be the dominant player in the ride-hailing business. Why? Because Uber’s business model is predicated on...Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:39:41 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-one/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-one/Over the last two years, I’ve learned an incredible amount about… well everything. Hiring, firing, raising money, selling, marketing, etc. But the most important thing I’ve learned is more meta than...Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:57:32 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-seed-stage-startups-should-join-the-capital-factory-accelerator-mzdwm/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-seed-stage-startups-should-join-the-capital-factory-accelerator-mzdwm/Over the last few months, Josh and Gordon from Capital Factory have introduced a few startup founders to me to ask me about my experience as a founder that's gone through the Capital Factory...Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:05:08 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/what-infrastructure-do-manufacturers-need-to-implement-servitization-k4tp5/https://kylesamani.com/posts/what-infrastructure-do-manufacturers-need-to-implement-servitization-k4tp5/This post was originally featured on the Field Service USA blog. This is the third post in a three-part series exploring servitization. The first post dove into the underlying problem that begat the...Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:26:20 GMTfield servicepristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/how-can-field-service-organizations-reconcile-the-incompatible-business-models-of-yesteryear-sq1ay/https://kylesamani.com/posts/how-can-field-service-organizations-reconcile-the-incompatible-business-models-of-yesteryear-sq1ay/This post was originally featured by Field Service USA. This is the second post in a three-part series exploring the two incompatible business models that coexist in most field service...Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:13:32 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/field-service-organizations-are-burdened-with-incompatible-business-models-ei9zr/https://kylesamani.com/posts/field-service-organizations-are-burdened-with-incompatible-business-models-ei9zr/This post was originally featured on The Field Service Blog. Field service organizations encompass two distinct business models that are intrinsically incompatible, yet the norm. How is this...Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:36:01 GMTpristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/do-next-generation-reimbursement-plans-align-with-healthcares-business-models/https://kylesamani.com/posts/do-next-generation-reimbursement-plans-align-with-healthcares-business-models/This post was originally featured on HIT Consultant. In The Innovator’s Prescription, Clayton Christensen identifies one of the core problems in healthcare delivery: a mix of intertwined business...Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:25:55 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-foundational-killer-app-of-the-apple-watch-notifications/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-foundational-killer-app-of-the-apple-watch-notifications/I just finished watching the Apple Watch keynote. There's one thing that repeatedly stands out throughout the course of the presentation, even though Apple doesn't explicitly highlight it. The Apple...Tue, 10 Mar 2015 04:12:17 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/en43ig79ufum19sw1ov9yioykzcusj/https://kylesamani.com/posts/en43ig79ufum19sw1ov9yioykzcusj/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Over the past few years, the government imposed copious regulations on healthcare providers, most of which are supposed to reduce costs, improve...Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:42:40 GMThealthcareentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/in-defense-of-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/in-defense-of-google-glass/This post was originally featured in Forbes. John C. Dvorak from PC Magazine UK recently wrote a piece outlining all of the reasons that Google Glass will fail. He is largely wrong. Dvorak’s...Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:57:37 GMTglassforbeshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/can-life-sciences-companies-evolve-to-accountable-care/https://kylesamani.com/posts/can-life-sciences-companies-evolve-to-accountable-care/This post was originally featured on HIT Consultant. Healthcare providers continue to assume increasing amounts of risk in care delivery. This has major implications, not just for providers and...Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:55:43 GMThealthcarehitconsultanthttps://kylesamani.com/posts/i9j7vj5ixmrstx7zdsenmc4a8oe32m/https://kylesamani.com/posts/i9j7vj5ixmrstx7zdsenmc4a8oe32m/This post was originally featured on the Huffington Post. The Internet has been the most democratizing technology of all time. It has enabled knowledge, ideas, culture and expertise to be...Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:00:06 GMTglasshuffpohttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-technology-hype-lifecycle-google-glass-edition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-technology-hype-lifecycle-google-glass-edition/This post originally featured on Forbes. Recent announcements from Google about the future of Glass naturally ignited an explosion of commentary in the tech media. For those of us in the Glass at...Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:25:14 GMTpristineglassforbeshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/watches-are-for-consumers-glasses-are-for-the-enterprise/https://kylesamani.com/posts/watches-are-for-consumers-glasses-are-for-the-enterprise/This post was originally featured on Wearables.com. From watches to socks, shirts to wristbands, glasses to rings, wearables promise all kinds of features to make our lives better. Thus, everyone...Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:27:44 GMTglasswearableshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-virtuous-cycle-of-sacrifice-in-startups/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-virtuous-cycle-of-sacrifice-in-startups/I ask people to sacrifice dozens of times a day. I ask candidates and my team to sacrifice employment at bigger companies that pay more and expect less. I ask our investors to put the capital they...Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:24:59 GMTentrepreneurshippristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/looking-at-field-service-through-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/looking-at-field-service-through-google-glass/This post was originally featured in Field Technologies Online. Why do enterprise customers of capital equipment demand guaranteed uptime? Because the capital equipment is mission critical to these...Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:06:40 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/aligning-incentives-across-disparate-pls/https://kylesamani.com/posts/aligning-incentives-across-disparate-pls/My company sells solutions that typically span multiple avenues of care. We’ve encountered a unique problem: incentives to improve care coordination rarely align when disparate P&Ls accrue to...Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:17:41 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/is-the-future-of-smart-clothing-modular-or-integrated/https://kylesamani.com/posts/is-the-future-of-smart-clothing-modular-or-integrated/OMSignal recently raised $10M to build sensors into smart clothes. Sensoria recently raised $5M in pursuit of the same mission, albeit using different tactics. Meanwhile, Apple hired the former CEO...Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:19:49 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/if-you-cant-beat-them-fund-them/https://kylesamani.com/posts/if-you-cant-beat-them-fund-them/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. In Where Does It Hurt, Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush explicitly calls out a number of businesses that are disrupting hospitals. Specifically, these...Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:51:44 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-are-telemedicine-systems-so-expensive/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-are-telemedicine-systems-so-expensive/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Like many other enabling-technologies in healthcare, telemedicine has vast unrealized potential. If we make location completely irrelevant and can...Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:33:10 GMTtechnologyhealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-health-insurance-demand-problem/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-health-insurance-demand-problem/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. A family friend was recently admitted to the hospital after a traumatic motorcycle accident in Colorado. He’s not in great condition, but he’s...Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:08:10 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/you-better-stay-healthy-or-else/https://kylesamani.com/posts/you-better-stay-healthy-or-else/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. As I read Jonathan Bush’s new book, Where Does It Hurt?the most salient problem that Bush discusses is that hospitals can’t effectively measure or...Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:13:22 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-apple-health/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-apple-health/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Apple recently announced Health and Healthkit as part of iOS 8, and initial responses have been mixed. At one extreme, the (highly biased) CEO of...Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:12:18 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/you-get-what-you-ask-for/https://kylesamani.com/posts/you-get-what-you-ask-for/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. I recently had a chance to meet Dr. Dave Levin, the first CMIO from Cleveland Clinic, at the Texas HIMSS conference, where I spoke about Google...Tue, 20 May 2014 01:37:25 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/7elivr43x67b4geja8o4biwviygxo2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/7elivr43x67b4geja8o4biwviygxo2/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. The Atlantic just wrote a piece highlighting the growing trend of non-physicians (commonly referred to as midlevels) providing healthcare. The...Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:44 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/happy-mothers-day-telemedicine-edition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/happy-mothers-day-telemedicine-edition/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought I’d write a post highlighting how telemedicine can benefit mothers caring for their children. Many children can...Tue, 13 May 2014 13:54:31 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/t6usew3gcp2x6ymhhi4olmybpp7i6k/https://kylesamani.com/posts/t6usew3gcp2x6ymhhi4olmybpp7i6k/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. We are witnessing a dramatic unbundling of the services that power business. Almost every aspect of business can be unbundled into a monthly...Thu, 08 May 2014 03:22:08 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-feds-are-supporting-telemedicine/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-feds-are-supporting-telemedicine/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently passed a model telehealth policy that promotes virtual visits for first-time encounter. This...Mon, 05 May 2014 17:50:32 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/what-is-the-cost-of-fraud-prevention-in-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/what-is-the-cost-of-fraud-prevention-in-healthcare/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Among other things, credit card companies prevent enormous volumes of fraud. In exchange for their services, credit card companies typically charge...Thu, 01 May 2014 12:06:11 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/welcome-to-telehealth-through-google-contacts/https://kylesamani.com/posts/welcome-to-telehealth-through-google-contacts/A few months ago, Google announced that they are developing contact lenses that can measure glucose levels present in one's tears. For diabetics accustomed to poking themselves multiple times per...Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:33:10 GMThealthcareglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-reduce-the-cost-of-care/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-reduce-the-cost-of-care/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. By refusing to pay for readmissions within 30 days of discharge from a hospital, Medicare has sent a strong message across the healthcare industry:...Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:50:46 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-telehealth/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-telehealth/Telehealth, aka telemedicine, is one of the most important trends shaping the future of healthcare. It is one of the most effective and direct ways to achieve the triple aim of cost, quality, and...Tue, 15 Apr 2014 02:29:35 GMTpristinehealthcaretechnologyglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/big-brother-or-best-friend/https://kylesamani.com/posts/big-brother-or-best-friend/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. The premise of clinical decision support (CDS) is simple and powerful: humans can’t remember everything, so enter data into a computer and let the...Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:27:16 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/how-much-of-the-healthcare-business-is-healthcare-1/https://kylesamani.com/posts/how-much-of-the-healthcare-business-is-healthcare-1/In The Great Re-Bundling of Healthcare, I argued that healthcare will be rebundled along new dimensions because technology will break assumptions that predicated bundling in the analog era of...Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:46:13 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-fundamental-challenge-of-acos/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-fundamental-challenge-of-acos/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. I’ve been openly bullish on ACOs and capitated payment models. The only way to achieve the triple aim – quality, cost and access – is to create a...Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:37:12 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-icd-10/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-icd-10/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. At least half a dozen folks have asked me to explain why HHS is mandating the transition to ICD-10. So I thought I’d write a blog post about the...Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:42:51 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/one-small-wink-for-man-one-giant-head-nod-for-mankind/https://kylesamani.com/posts/one-small-wink-for-man-one-giant-head-nod-for-mankind/We would love to issue a huge congratulations to our partners at Rhode Island Hospital (RIH). They just went live with Pristine EyeSight on Google Glass in the ER for dermatology consults. One of...Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:32:53 GMTpristineglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-irony-of-healthcare-standards/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-irony-of-healthcare-standards/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Healthcare delivery should be standardized. Medicine is, after all, primarily a science. Providers must diagnose and treat patients. Clinicians must...Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:50:20 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/keep-it-simple-stupid/https://kylesamani.com/posts/keep-it-simple-stupid/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. There are an enormous number of startups trying to solve the medication adherence problem. Broadly speaking, these startups are trying to solve the...Sat, 01 Mar 2014 21:07:59 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/crowdsourced-calendar-management/https://kylesamani.com/posts/crowdsourced-calendar-management/Crowdsourced Calendar Management Busy executives hate managing their own calendars. Emailing back and forth to find mutually agreeable times, creating calendar invites, and scheduling time...Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:22:31 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/adopting-the-right-ux-perspective/https://kylesamani.com/posts/adopting-the-right-ux-perspective/Adopting The Right UX Perspective UX is about just that, user experience. Not software design, but the experience that the user feels. While watching a promotional video for a new calendar app,...Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:55:04 GMThcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-will-medical-professionals-use-laptops/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-will-medical-professionals-use-laptops/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Steve Jobs famously said that “laptops are like trucks. They’re going to be used by fewer and fewer people. This transition is going to make people...Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:01:48 GMTglasshealthcarehcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/unlocking-the-power-of-data-science-in-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/unlocking-the-power-of-data-science-in-healthcare/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. Vinod Khosla, Founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, recently stated that “in the next 10 years, data science and software will do more...Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:00:21 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/how-much-of-the-healthcare-business-is-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/how-much-of-the-healthcare-business-is-healthcare/This post was originally featured on EMRandHIPAA. In The Great Re-Bundling of Healthcare, I argued that healthcare will be rebundled along new dimensions because technology will break assumptions...Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:05:43 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/overcoming-the-challenge-of-checklists-access/https://kylesamani.com/posts/overcoming-the-challenge-of-checklists-access/In The Checklist Manifesto, Dr. Atul Gawande outlines some of the challenges associated with implementing checklists in clinical environments. Checklists cannot take longer than 90 - 120 seconds to...Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:44:20 GMTglasshealthcarehcipristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/google-glass-is-fueling-telemedicine-innovation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/google-glass-is-fueling-telemedicine-innovation/Telemedicine is the most profound initiative happening in medicine today. Telemedicine will do more to curb costs, increase access, and improve quality of life for both patients and providers than...Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:22:20 GMTglasshealthcaretechnologypristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/making-sense-of-2013/https://kylesamani.com/posts/making-sense-of-2013/My 2013 year in review begins in Q4 of 2012. At the time, I was working at VersaSuite as the product manager for all clinical applications and the project manager for two grueling hospital EMR...Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:47:22 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/speak-freely/https://kylesamani.com/posts/speak-freely/I began blogging in January 2013 as a new years resolution. During that first month of blogging, I wrote brief essays on the power of the keyboard and mouse in human computer interaction...Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:49:15 GMThealthcarehcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-great-re-bundling-of-healthcare-part-2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-great-re-bundling-of-healthcare-part-2/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. This is part 2 in a series of posts of how computers are rebuilding healthcare. Check out part 1. Medicine is organized into disciplines. Many of these...Sat, 21 Dec 2013 23:22:43 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/more-more-more-make-more-stuff/https://kylesamani.com/posts/more-more-more-make-more-stuff/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. There are three ways businesses solve problems: 1. Make more stuff / provide more services. 2. Optimize existing stuff / services to be used more...Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:27:18 GMTtechnologyhealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-great-re-bundling-of-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-great-re-bundling-of-healthcare/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Computers break assumptions. By breaking assumptions, computers are re-bundling industries. No industry will be left untouched as computers eat the...Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:47:25 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/stay-home/https://kylesamani.com/posts/stay-home/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. AliveCor just announced AliveInsights, an integrated telemedicine solution that lives on top of AliveCor’s smartphone ECG. AliveCor is advertising that...Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:30:21 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/anesthesiologists-are-moving-up-the-value-chain/https://kylesamani.com/posts/anesthesiologists-are-moving-up-the-value-chain/Dr Leng is right. The future of anesthesia isn't about competing with CRNAs and computers. Cost pressures dictate that eventually, mid levels and computers will win. Instead, anesthesiologists should...Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:30:00 GMTpristinehealthcaretechnologyglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/computers-are-eating-healthcare-part-2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/computers-are-eating-healthcare-part-2/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. This is the second in a series of posts that outlines how computers are eating the world. Check out Part 1. Humans do three things and only three...Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:19:13 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/what-does-the-future-of-medical-process-control-look-like-through-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/what-does-the-future-of-medical-process-control-look-like-through-google-glass/This post was originally written for the HATCHpitch TechStreet Houston contest, where Pristine won. Google Glass and other eyeware computers will provide a foundation to deliver the ultimate process...Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:10:20 GMTpristinetechnologyglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/what-does-the-future-of-medical-communication-look-like-through-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/what-does-the-future-of-medical-communication-look-like-through-google-glass/This post was originally written for the HATCHpitch Tech Street Houston contest, where Pristine won. Healthcare delivery is an increasingly collaborative effort: there are virtually no environments...Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:07:13 GMTpristineglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-how-profits-are-shifting-across-the-computing-value-chain/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-how-profits-are-shifting-across-the-computing-value-chain/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. There’s a famous scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (a movie that chronicles the origins of Microsoft and Apple) in which Bill Gates is meeting with...Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:36:01 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/looking-through-the-crystal-ball-futuremed/https://kylesamani.com/posts/looking-through-the-crystal-ball-futuremed/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Last week I spent four days at the exclusive FutureMed conference in San Diego. FutureMed is, as the name implies, a conference focused on...Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:39:41 GMThealthcaretechnologyglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-proliferation-of-healthcare-marketplaces/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-proliferation-of-healthcare-marketplaces/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Some of the fundamental tenets of capitalism are that that markets are free, open, and transparent. Healthcare is notoriously opaque, with little to no...Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:26:37 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-impending-hospital-wi-fi-collapse/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-impending-hospital-wi-fi-collapse/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. BlackBerry’s collapse is one of the greatest business learning opportunities of the past few years. It’s peppered with invaluable lessons. This is...Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:34:17 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/indispensable-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/indispensable-glass/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. Hypothesis: users of every major computing platform have come to consider each platform indispensable for their daily activities in both consumer and...Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:16:18 GMTglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-digital-queues/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-digital-queues/I love digital queues. Why? Because I can move through them with ruthless efficiency. Queues empower me to consume and interact with enormous volumes of data in quick succession. Queues include, but...Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:50:00 GMTentrepreneurshiphcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-internet-accelerates-everything/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-internet-accelerates-everything/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. Commerce and trade are fundamentally based on exchanging asymmetries in one another’s ability to produce value at a given cost. As such, commerce...Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:12:31 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/learning-from-the-smartphone-era-building-consumer-glass-businesses/https://kylesamani.com/posts/learning-from-the-smartphone-era-building-consumer-glass-businesses/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. I’ve been pretty pessimistic about the opportunities to build consumer Glass-native businesses. But let’s assume I’m wrong. What if there’re...Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:27:32 GMTtechnologyglasshcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-the-smartphone/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-the-smartphone/The post was originally featured on the Pristine blog. I've written about the marginal value of Google Glass. As I continue to make sense of Glass and what it can and can't do, I think it'd be...Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:32:43 GMTtechnologyglasshcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/health-it-bubbles/https://kylesamani.com/posts/health-it-bubbles/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Travis and I attended the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. The most prominent trend I observed was that health IT startups are converging on a few...Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:51:46 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/getting-data-in-and-out-of-your-electronic-health-record/https://kylesamani.com/posts/getting-data-in-and-out-of-your-electronic-health-record/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. Epic is the most dominant electronic health record (EHR) company in the US. Although Epic is a private company, it boasts over 6500 employees, $2.3B in...Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:43:08 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/making-sense-of-calico/https://kylesamani.com/posts/making-sense-of-calico/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Google recently announced a new venture, Calico, with a stated mission of extending human life by 100 years for those born 20 years ago. Some love it....Fri, 11 Oct 2013 22:52:51 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-google-fiber-moat-widening-endeavor-future-of-computing/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-google-fiber-moat-widening-endeavor-future-of-computing/This post was originally featured on TechZulu. In twenty years, Fiber will be one of Google’s most valuable assets.  Fiber is a genius long-term strategic play. With Fiber, Google has 2 primary...Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:09:54 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-control-teamwork-and-innovation-as-the-value-chain-consolidates/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-control-teamwork-and-innovation-as-the-value-chain-consolidates/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. The rise of Wintel (Windows + Intel) during the 1990s was characterized by hyper modularization of computing. Apple’s integrated business model was...Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:41:16 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass-continued-continued/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass-continued-continued/This post was originally featured on the Pristine Blog. Glass is just a computer. Nothing less, nothing more. I previously identified four fundamental characteristics of Glass that make it unique....Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:56:18 GMTpristineglasstechnologyhcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/a-shifting-basis-of-competition/https://kylesamani.com/posts/a-shifting-basis-of-competition/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Software is eating the world. As a result, the basis of competition in almost every industry is changing. The venture capital (VC) industry in...Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:12:20 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/monetizing-consumer-health-applications/https://kylesamani.com/posts/monetizing-consumer-health-applications/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. I may be sitting on a high horse, but I have a fundamental problem with businesses that don’t have a monetization strategy from inception. The concept...Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:17:34 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/a-killer-mass-market-consumer-app-for-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/a-killer-mass-market-consumer-app-for-glass/I've been pretty pessimistic about Glass's chances for success as a consumer product for any number of reasons. The greatest challenge Glass has to overcome is the existential question: why should...Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:17:41 GMTglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/going-for-the-jugular/https://kylesamani.com/posts/going-for-the-jugular/Apple and Google are trying to fundamentally undercut one another. Apple's business model is predicated on selling hardware at fat margins. In order to earn those margins, Apple must pioneer new...Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:23:09 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/phi-from-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/phi-from-glass/A handful of surgeons have live-streamed surgeries to the Internet from Glass using Google Hangouts. Although in each case, the patient consented, using Google Hangouts isn't a viable production...Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:54:39 GMTglasshealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/ephemeral-communications/https://kylesamani.com/posts/ephemeral-communications/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. SnapChat is ridiculous. It’s raising $80M at an $800M valuation. How are self-deleting pictures and videos worth nearly a billion dollars? SnapChat...Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:48:21 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-killer-apps-for-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-killer-apps-for-glass/This post was originally featured on the Pristine blog. I recently wrote that there aren't any killer consumer apps for Glass that will drive adoption. Yes, there're Glass apps for hobbies, but...Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:03:57 GMTglasspristinetechnologyhcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/whats-the-killer-app-for-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/whats-the-killer-app-for-glass/With the exception of the iPad, the adoption of every major consumer technology platform was driven by a handful of distinct, killer applications: Desktop: Excel, later Word, and then the...Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:46:40 GMTglasstechnologyhcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/explaining-the-17-meaningful-use-dropout-rate/https://kylesamani.com/posts/explaining-the-17-meaningful-use-dropout-rate/It's been widely reported that 17% of eligible providers dropped out of the meaningful use program after 1 year of participation. There are hundreds of reasons one can point to in order to explain...Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:52:29 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-3-fda-hipaa/https://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-3-fda-hipaa/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Lots of people ask me about FDA and HIPAA compliance for Glass. There’s nothing in either of these regulatory frameworks that has unique implications...Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:30:20 GMTglasshealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-the-aco-pioneers-successes-and-failures/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-the-aco-pioneers-successes-and-failures/First year pilot numbers are out for the first ACOs. They're a mixed bag. About 1/3 performed well, 1/3 did mediocre, and 1/3 are anxiously leaving the ACO pioneer program. People like to yell and...Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:31:25 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/computers-are-eating-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/computers-are-eating-healthcare/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. "Software is eating the world" – Marc Andreesen, Andreesen Horrowitz This quote is predicated by a handful of key assumptions and has a number of...Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:13:07 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/follow-the-clinical-trials-money/https://kylesamani.com/posts/follow-the-clinical-trials-money/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. A New York Times article, Do Clinical Trials Work?, describes how modern clinical trials are broken since drugs for most of the complicated modern...Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:24:43 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/selling-a-dream/https://kylesamani.com/posts/selling-a-dream/We're lucky. We spent a remarkably short period of time answering the existential startup question. We found surgeons, anesthesiologists, and seasoned healthcare IT executives that believed in our...Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:40:15 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-genius-of-the-glass-explorer-program/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-genius-of-the-glass-explorer-program/I see four distinct forms of genius in the design of the Glass Explorer ifihadglass program. 1) Ensure that Explorers love Glass. I've interacted with over 100 Explorers. I've noticed some unique...Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:59:26 GMTglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/blogging-and-signalling/https://kylesamani.com/posts/blogging-and-signalling/Blogging was one of the best decisions I've made in my life. It's one of the best signalling mechanisms. I had a hunch going into 2013 that I would want to start a company, raise capital, attract...Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:58:54 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/battle-of-the-app-stores-athena-vs-greenway/https://kylesamani.com/posts/battle-of-the-app-stores-athena-vs-greenway/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Greenway and athenahealth are two of the more forward-thinking companies in health IT. Although they do have some older technologies in the background,...Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:50:38 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/scorch-the-earth/https://kylesamani.com/posts/scorch-the-earth/“In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats.” - Warren Buffett I'm an intellectual. I like thinking about stuff. My favorite subject is business models. I love...Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:52:52 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/there-will-be-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/https://kylesamani.com/posts/there-will-be-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. …those who tell computers what to do, and those who’re told by computers what to do." - Marc Andreesen, Andreesen Horrowitz. I have a lot of favorite...Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:46:34 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/is-glass-a-g-or-a-wave/https://kylesamani.com/posts/is-glass-a-g-or-a-wave/People ask me all the time if Google will pull the plug on Glass. No, they won't. Ever. Well, at least not until they develop contact lens computers. Here's the right way to think about Glass's...Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:02:58 GMTglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-connectivity/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-power-of-connectivity/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. This blog post was inspired by a recent post by one of my favorite bloggers, Cadell Last. Last is a futurist who writes about biological and...Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:02:57 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/answering-the-existential-startup-question/https://kylesamani.com/posts/answering-the-existential-startup-question/I've been following the tech startup scene for years. I read so many funding and product launch announcements that I had been completely desensitized to the effort and energy that went into each one....Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:41:01 GMTpristineentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-enterprise-glass-app-gold-rush/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-enterprise-glass-app-gold-rush/This post was originally featured on The Pristine Blog. I'd like to posit that the enterprise Glass app market is going to be a gold rush. Many folks disagree. They argue that Glass volumes will be...Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:37:43 GMTglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/passwords-be-gone/https://kylesamani.com/posts/passwords-be-gone/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. One of the least-talked about aspects of Google Glass is the proximity sensor. It’s extremely powerful and will change healthcare workflows. Glass...Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:37:13 GMThealthcareglasstechnologyhcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-challenge-of-developing-engaging-consumer-apps-on-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-challenge-of-developing-engaging-consumer-apps-on-glass/This post was originally featured on the Pristine Blog. In my presentation, Glass Insights, I present the case that it will be very difficult for consumer Glass apps to make any money. There are a...Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:12:46 GMTglasshcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-contextual-challenge-of-developing-consumer-apps-on-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-contextual-challenge-of-developing-consumer-apps-on-glass/This post was originally featured on the Pristine Blog. I've argued that context is king in eyeware computing. I'd like to take that one step further and clarify when apps should and shouldn't exist...Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:10:04 GMTglasshcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass-continued/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass-continued/I've been traveling the country presenting about Google Glass from the perspective of a Glass startup. As part of the presentation (available here), I present a thesis on how to think about usability...Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:24:08 GMTglasshcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-price-of-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-price-of-glass/This post was originally featured on the Pristine Blog. Google won't say anything about how they're going to price Glass for the general public upon launch, so I'll fuel the rumor mill for them. To...Wed, 10 Jul 2013 04:19:26 GMTglasshcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-cost-of-wearing-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-cost-of-wearing-glass/This post was originally featured on the Pristine Blog. I started the Austin Google Glass Meetup. For our opening meeting this past week, I gave this presentation. It opens with an introduction to...Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:22:52 GMTglasshcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-insights-input-output/https://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-insights-input-output/This post was originally featured on the Pristine blog. This is the first in a series of posts that will illustrate how Glass is different from all of its computing predecessors: PCs, smartphones,...Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:53:19 GMTglasspristinehcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/choice-be-damned/https://kylesamani.com/posts/choice-be-damned/This post was originally featured on the Pristine blog. The first PCs could do anything. There were no restrictions. They were sold as disparate hardware components that had to be assembled and...Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:51:05 GMThciglasspristinehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/you-dont-need-instagram-on-your-face/https://kylesamani.com/posts/you-dont-need-instagram-on-your-face/This post was originally featured on the Pristine blog. Most of the media's response towards Google Glass has been negative. Very negative. Sure, there are people who can't envision another day of...Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:45:30 GMTpristineglasstechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-social-responses-to-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/understanding-social-responses-to-glass/I want to learn to predict the future. It's incredibly difficult. The majority of people who are paid millions of dollars to predict the future fail most of the time. Chris Dixon, general partner at...Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:31:34 GMTglassentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/samsunghome/https://kylesamani.com/posts/samsunghome/The biggest announcement at Google IO 2011 turned into vaporware: Android@Home. What a shame. The dream was so ambitious. I understand why Google gave up on it though: the reward-to-work ratio was...Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:14:36 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/international-white-collar-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/international-white-collar-healthcare/This post was originally featured on HIStalk I visited Peru a few weeks ago to present a hospital-wide HIS and EHR to three hospitals. Over the past three years, I’ve presented EHRs and HISs in half...Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:58:49 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/smile/https://kylesamani.com/posts/smile/I've sold a few different goods and services in my young career: electronic health records and dreams; I've never sold anything "traditional," such as a cars, homes, devices, computers, etc. I can't...Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:00:15 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/what-if-google-does-it/https://kylesamani.com/posts/what-if-google-does-it/This post originally appeared on HIStalk. I’m a nerd. Instead of watching Hollywood movies, I watched the entirety of Google’s 3.5 hour keynote from their recent developer conference, Google IO. I...Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:17:42 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/bringing-the-principles-of-couchsurfing-to-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/bringing-the-principles-of-couchsurfing-to-healthcare/This post originally appeared on HIStalk. For the uninitiated, couchsurfing is literally sleeping on a stranger’s couch for free. It’s an incredible global movement in which millions of people have...Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:20:07 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-email/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-email/Just a few days ago, I wrote a blog post defending email. I argued that email is structurally sound because it models how people think about disparate information in their lives. Social streams don't...Thu, 30 May 2013 03:54:57 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-third-screen-revolution-in-healthcare-is-before-us/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-third-screen-revolution-in-healthcare-is-before-us/This post was originally featured on HIStalk.​ For the past few years, there’s been a lot of innovation and discussion about the second screen – primarily smartphones and tablets – while watching...Thu, 30 May 2013 02:38:00 GMThealthcareglasshcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/where-is-the-aereo-of-the-hospital-ehr-industry/https://kylesamani.com/posts/where-is-the-aereo-of-the-hospital-ehr-industry/This post was originally featured on HIStalk.​ Aereo, the startup that’s looking to disintermediate content providers from cable providers, is making waves, lighting fires, and prompting competitive...Thu, 30 May 2013 02:36:05 GMTtechnologyhealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/eyeware-computers-circumvent-logging-in/https://kylesamani.com/posts/eyeware-computers-circumvent-logging-in/It's standard practice to auto-minimize / lock electronic health records (EHRs) after a few minutes of inactivity. It's a reasonable practice: people forget to lock the computer when they walk away,...Mon, 27 May 2013 20:12:28 GMTglasshcihealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/convention-or-configuration-in-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/convention-or-configuration-in-healthcare/This post originally appeared on HIStalk One of the classical debates in computer science is convention versus configuration. This debate manifests in programming language design, product design,...Thu, 23 May 2013 01:46:46 GMThealthcaretechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/ehrs-propagate-best-practices/https://kylesamani.com/posts/ehrs-propagate-best-practices/This post originally appeared on HIStalk Earlier today I had a discussion with a critical access hospital. I discovered that every doctor at the hospital had developed his or her own insulin sliding...Thu, 23 May 2013 01:44:34 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/context-is-king-in-eyeware-computing/https://kylesamani.com/posts/context-is-king-in-eyeware-computing/In the 1960s, there was a single computing context: large projects run by large companies and governments with lots of money and engineers. Today, billions of people compute in quite virtually every...Thu, 23 May 2013 01:43:08 GMTglasshcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/in-defense-of-email-subjects-and-threads/https://kylesamani.com/posts/in-defense-of-email-subjects-and-threads/Everyone hates on email. Facebook is trying to kill email by making Facebook chat - a social stream - the primary form of digital communication across all computing devices. They're trying to "reduce...Wed, 22 May 2013 01:55:06 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/a-journey-to-peru/https://kylesamani.com/posts/a-journey-to-peru/I usually don't blog about my daily activities, but I'll make an exception for special trips and international journeys. And here are some pictures. Saturday May 11th, 2013 I flew out of Austin...Sun, 19 May 2013 01:28:56 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/how-do-you-improve-upon-perfection/https://kylesamani.com/posts/how-do-you-improve-upon-perfection/The 15" Retina Macbook Pro (RMBP) is the first "perfect" PC. Of course Apple and its suppliers will continue to innovate, but the innovations at this point are effectively meaningless because the...Sat, 18 May 2013 23:59:45 GMThcitechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/convention-configuration/https://kylesamani.com/posts/convention-configuration/One of the classical debates in computer science is convention versus configuration. This debate manifests in programming-language design, product design, marketing, what hardware and software can...Tue, 07 May 2013 01:22:44 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/weve-passed-the-threshold-computers-will-be-everywhere/https://kylesamani.com/posts/weve-passed-the-threshold-computers-will-be-everywhere/Computers are getting smaller every year. Back in the day, computers consumed entire rooms. Today we have Glass. Glass is a complete computer that's small and light enough to rest comfortably on the...Fri, 03 May 2013 16:11:41 GMTtechnologyhciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/are-hospital-ehr-vendors-primarily-software-or-services-companies/https://kylesamani.com/posts/are-hospital-ehr-vendors-primarily-software-or-services-companies/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. Hospital EHR vendors are not primarily software companies with professional services divisions. They are primarily professional service companies with...Fri, 03 May 2013 16:07:59 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/proteus-will-use-social-pressure-to-cut-healthcare-costs/https://kylesamani.com/posts/proteus-will-use-social-pressure-to-cut-healthcare-costs/There are plenty of theories about how we can go about cutting the healthcare cost curve. Most involve changing incentives, using more health IT for analytics, and using mid levels and other non-mss...Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:56:26 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-defining-characteristic-of-eyeware-computers-transparency/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-defining-characteristic-of-eyeware-computers-transparency/Google Glass won't be the only eyeware computer. There will be many others, including: Contact lens computing (not real yet) Meta-View (Like contact lenses, but in glasses form instead) Oculus...Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:16:49 GMTglasshcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/quantified-earth-and-civilziation/https://kylesamani.com/posts/quantified-earth-and-civilziation/The Internet loves talking about the quantified self (QS) movement these days. There's all sorts of hype about using sensors to collect data about our bodies: steps, what we see, sleep cycles,...Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:02:41 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-pc-era/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-pc-era/We're seeing hyper growth and diversity in computing markets. We've never before witnessed such a wide variety of commercially successful computing platforms. PCs aren't going away. They're just...Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:50:37 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/one-for-all-or-all-for-one/https://kylesamani.com/posts/one-for-all-or-all-for-one/5 years from now, there will be a sea of "duh, why didn't I think of that?" Google Glass apps. But today, it's hard to know which ideas and products will succeed. It's even harder to forecast how the...Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:12:39 GMTglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-for-hobby/https://kylesamani.com/posts/glass-for-hobby/People enjoy talking about Google Glass. Everyone has ideas for it. I've read through hundreds of Glass ideas. I'm taking cues from all of the good ideas, looking for patterns and trends, and trying...Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:47:17 GMThciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/my-favorite-mac-osx-apps/https://kylesamani.com/posts/my-favorite-mac-osx-apps/Since I just wrote about my favorite iOS apps, I had to do the same thing for Mac OSX apps too. Before I start, it's important to note that I have super computer - a 15" quad core Retina Macbook Pro...Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:43:01 GMTtechnologyentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/living-at-the-crossroads-of-technology-and-the-arts/https://kylesamani.com/posts/living-at-the-crossroads-of-technology-and-the-arts/In Steve Jobs' 2nd to last keynote presentation at the launch of the iPad 2 in March 2011, he outlined what he thought made Apple special. He suggested that technology alone is not enough, and that...Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:38:18 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/can-foursquare-provide-the-location-layer-of-the-internet-as-a-profitable-business/https://kylesamani.com/posts/can-foursquare-provide-the-location-layer-of-the-internet-as-a-profitable-business/TechCrunch recently wrote about how to save FourSquare. Although FourSquare was the hottest consumer web startup just a few years ago, today they're vulnerable. After building up a rabid user base,...Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:16:35 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/my-favorite-ios-apps/https://kylesamani.com/posts/my-favorite-ios-apps/As I wrote the first draft of this post, I quickly realized that this post is actually about far more than just iOS apps. It's about taking advantage of computers to their fullest extent,...Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:08:48 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/betterleaptool/https://kylesamani.com/posts/betterleaptool/I just got my developer hardware for the Leap Motion controller. It's awesome. I haven't opened up the SDK yet, but I've started playing with the hardware and built-in data visualizer. The level of...Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:33:01 GMTtechnologyhcientrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-economics-of-google-glass-in-healthcare/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-economics-of-google-glass-in-healthcare/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. A lot of people think Google Glass can be used as a development platform to create amazing healthcare apps. So do I. Many of these ideas are obvious,...Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:04:17 GMTtechnologyglasshealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/sprinting/https://kylesamani.com/posts/sprinting/I've been sprinting recently. It's been a blast. I haven't sprinted since Spring 2006, when I ran the 400M in track during my sophomore year of high school. Back then, I was 5'11"" and 160lbs. Now...Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:46:33 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-value-of-not-thinking/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-value-of-not-thinking/I try to think as little as possible. Humans are bad at thinking. I think a lot, but I actively think about how to think as little as possible. One of the key tenets of computer science is...Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:53:03 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-microsoft-transitioning-to-a-1-year-windows-cadence/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-is-microsoft-transitioning-to-a-1-year-windows-cadence/Microsoft just announced the formal preview of the successor to Windows 8, which is rumored to be named Windows Blue. Blue will be unveiled at the Microsoft BUILD developers conference in June 2013....Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:50:30 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-value-of-meaningful-use/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-value-of-meaningful-use/There's been a recent round of headlines reflecting on the efficacy of the Meaningful Use program to push physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). A RAND study conducted in...Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:45:01 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/friction-free-computing/https://kylesamani.com/posts/friction-free-computing/I've previously outlined the 3 fundamentally unique characteristics of Glass: 1) Hands free 2) Heads up display 3) Omni-present/friction-free (it's always there) I think 3 is by far the most...Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:59:38 GMTtechnologyhciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/market-segmentation-in-computing/https://kylesamani.com/posts/market-segmentation-in-computing/Today I reserved a rental car, and I noticed something interesting. According to Enterprise, the automobile market is segmented into at least 27 different sub-markets. Wow, that's incredible. I...Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:42:35 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/a-balanced-ehr-copy-forward-solution/https://kylesamani.com/posts/a-balanced-ehr-copy-forward-solution/This post was originally featured on HIStalk. There’s been a recent wave of media coverage surrounding the topic of EHR copy forward functionality. Many have suggested that this function should be...Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:35:32 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-major-shortcoming-of-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-major-shortcoming-of-google-glass/So far I've only written about the opportunities for Glass. Everything I've written has been overwhelmingly positive. But Google Glass has many shortcomings. The greatest shortcoming is the lack of...Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:27:49 GMTtechnologyhciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/vitamins-and-pain-pills/https://kylesamani.com/posts/vitamins-and-pain-pills/Every company attempts to solve a problem. Some problems cause enormous pain. Others do not. For the problem-ridden customer, the product is either a vitamin or pain pill. Unfortunately, many...Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:48:55 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-being-wrong-and-learning/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-being-wrong-and-learning/SXSW is going on this weekend. I've spent the past 2 nights out on the town mingling and socializing. I woke up early this Saturday morning catch up on life, then head out and do it all over again....Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:43:59 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/serendipitous-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/serendipitous-glass/Serendipitous Glass As I've said before, there are at least 3 fundamentally unique characteristics of Glass. 1) hands-free 2) omni-present (always there) and immediately accessible 3) heads up...Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:33:52 GMThciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-wearable-computing/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-wearable-computing/The rumor mill has recently been abuzz about an Apple iWatch. Apple will never release an iWatch. It makes absolutely no sense. A computer-watch fails to realize the fundamental value of wearable...Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:57:32 GMTtechnologyhciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/outsource-it/https://kylesamani.com/posts/outsource-it/This is the followup post to my first post on AthenaHealth. This post will exemplify Marc Andreesen's statement "software is eating the world", looking specifically at AthenaHealth and Square in...Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:54:35 GMTtechnologyhealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-marginal-value-of-google-glass/I am ecstatic for Google Glass. I can't wait. I'm applying to the developer beta with a few healthcare ideas. The opportunities are endless. I've been brainstorming ideas for the past few days. What...Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:52:16 GMThciglasshttps://kylesamani.com/posts/a-glimpse-of-amazons-genuis/https://kylesamani.com/posts/a-glimpse-of-amazons-genuis/I just bought my 3rd pair of shoes from Zappos (Zappos is owned by Amazon), and I was treated with this:​ This is genius. Zappos knows that I'm well on my way to becoming a regular customer. At...Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:28:53 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-battle-for-the-mom-and-pop-shops/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-battle-for-the-mom-and-pop-shops/I never really cared for FourSquare as a company, even though I used to be a daily user of the product. I used to really like Groupon as a company until I realized that Square will eventually destroy...Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:50:37 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/athenahealth-a-case-study-part-1/https://kylesamani.com/posts/athenahealth-a-case-study-part-1/AthenaHealth is the most interesting company in healthcare IT. They've developed the most stable, cash-producing, low-risk business model by solving one of the biggest problems in healthcare. For...Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:59:47 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-cost-of-being-wrong/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-cost-of-being-wrong/Is always higher than you think. We have been working on these hospital deployments at work at full steam for 8 months. Our first timeline was end-user training and go live in 4-5 months. This...Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:52:26 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/incentives-matter/https://kylesamani.com/posts/incentives-matter/Incentives Matter Within the healthcare IT community, it's widely known that Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have had a sustainability problem since their inception. Everyone wants to reap the...Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:10:33 GMThealthcarehttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-10000-hour-chef/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-10000-hour-chef/I have been quite underwhelmed with Tim Ferris's The 4 Hour Chef. Although the book definitely provided a good starting point for becoming a cook, it just wasn't very substantial. As I outlined in...Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:45:02 GMThttps://kylesamani.com/posts/why-do-consumers-hire-oses/https://kylesamani.com/posts/why-do-consumers-hire-oses/I'd like to preface this post by saying that I am not an OS level programmer, though I understand the fundamental abstraction layers in most modern OSes. On the other hand, I have a strong background...Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:42:59 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/android-will-be-the-worlds-most-used-os-in-2015/https://kylesamani.com/posts/android-will-be-the-worlds-most-used-os-in-2015/I can't believe I left this off my prediction list I posted a couple of weeks ago. The attached excel model can walk you through how I derived my conclusion. Bear in mind that my entire model is...Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:22:02 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-future-of-command-line-uis-part-3/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-future-of-command-line-uis-part-3/This is the 3rd post in a 3-post series examining physical UIs. The first 2 posts focused on the UIs that are dominant in the PC environment. The first post focused on the keyboard, detailing the ins...Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:15:13 GMThcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-best-desktop-ui-part-2/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-best-desktop-ui-part-2/In my first post of this 3 part series, I detailed why Alfred extends the PC keyboard into the ultimate productiivty tool. This post will focus on another free OSX app, BetterTouchTool (BTT). BTT...Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:55:35 GMThcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/the-best-ui-presented-objectively/https://kylesamani.com/posts/the-best-ui-presented-objectively/One of the center pieces of the age-old Mac vs PC debate has been about UI. Who creates the best UI in the desktop/laptop environment, Microsoft or Apple? Most people who know me would say that I...Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:57:23 GMThcihttps://kylesamani.com/posts/new-years-resolutions-2013/https://kylesamani.com/posts/new-years-resolutions-2013/Leading up to NYE, I decided upon 2 distinct new years resolutions. I chose these particular goals because I felt they are areas of my life that are materially lacking, and are negatively impacting...Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:17:51 GMTentrepreneurshiphttps://kylesamani.com/posts/predictions-for-2013/https://kylesamani.com/posts/predictions-for-2013/Technology and 3D printing 1. 3D Systems ($DDD) and Stratasys ($SSYS) both see 50% growth in stock price, if not significantly more. The reason: an increasing number of investors are realizing the...Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:09:42 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/on-the-feasability-of-an-apple-television/https://kylesamani.com/posts/on-the-feasability-of-an-apple-television/For years, many in the tech industry have been speculating that Apple will release a full television set.  This speculation grew fiercely upon the release of Steve Jobs' biography, in which Steve is...Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:28:15 GMTtechnologyhttps://kylesamani.com/posts/getting-started/https://kylesamani.com/posts/getting-started/So I’ve decided I need an outlet to express random thoughts I have on my mind.  I figured I’d make it public, since I’d like to think that I come up with interesting ideas every now and again.  For...Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:51:43 GMT