Best of Startup — March 2022

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   Hacker News·4y

   I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

   In the year of our lord 2017 I had a Brilliant Startup Idea: use a structured database of clinical trials to provide simple, practical answers to common medical questions. I made a spreadsheet with every OTC painkiller trial I could find and used R to run a network meta-analysis, the gold standard of evidence-based medicine. After a few hours searching domains I came up with a name for my project: GlacierMD. I would spend $40K of my own savings buying clinical trials and paying contractors to enter said trials into the GlacierMD database. Two weeks later GlacierMD was dead.

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   RUBYLAND·4y

   Writing Architecture Documents (for developers)

   A 20-person team at Epion wrote an Architecture Document to share ideas with each other. The document should be succinct, so everybody reads it, can share feedback, and signs off on. It should also add much detail to ensure no scenario (current or future) is left unattended.

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   80 LEVEL·4y

   Riot Games Makes a Huge Investment in Arcane Creators

   "This agreement ensures we’ll be working closely for decades to come," says Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent. "In working with Fortiche, we collaborate to push the boundaries of what’s possible and raise expectations for how games can be represented in media," he adds.

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