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One characteristic of successful startups is their ability to offer innovative solutions to age-old problems. Health. Education. Communication. Comfort. Why depend on old-fashioned ways to meet these old-fashioned needs? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” right?

Fortunately for the rest of us, the men and women who work to bring world-changing ideas to market don’t see things that way. They look around and see opportunity. Where others are happy with the status quo, they look for a better way.

Four innovative companies are changing the way people meet their basic needs, how they interact with one another, and how they improve their lives. Each of them is (or was, in the beginning), a startup—an idea held together with little more than faith and sweat equity.