Rock Health: mental health startups aimed at young people getting bigger piece of the pie
The company launched the Digital Youth Mental Health Initiative earlier this year
Read more...Since the beginning of time - the relationship between the Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been, well, err ... complicated. The New York Times takes another swing at this today, and determines its about comparing the size of executive airplanes.
The Hollywood G4 clearly loses out to Sergey and Larry's Boeing 767 Jet. But comparing jet sizes not withstanding - the real complexity of the two worlds isn't about stock options or pay-grades. Hollywood is fueled by scarcity. Silicon Valley is fueled by abundance. And if you look down the road - its pretty clear that abundance is on the rise.
Just think about it - the Valley has brought us WordPress, Movable
Type, YouTube, Flickr, Delicious (ok NY), Apple TV, Joost,
Skype, Final Cut, MP3, Twitter, Facebook, Ustream.. the list goes
on and on.
Each and every company i've listed is a software platform that in some
way dis-intermediates the role of Hollywood on content creation and
distribution.
Let's look at the before and after of the content creation system;
The company launched the Digital Youth Mental Health Initiative earlier this year
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