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The secret to FDA approval, and other insights, from a med tech CEO

Lisa Earnhardt, president and CEO of Intersect ENT, shares tips on finding your customer, working with physicians, and collaborating with the FDA.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on May 14, 2013
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How life science companies can find – and exploit – the needs of the marketplace

Dinu Sen, CEO of Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, offers tips on finding need in the sector, hiring, and determining whether working with an accelerator is right for your company.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on May 07, 2013
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Ginger.io: Co-founder offers insights on partnerships and building momentum

Described as a "check engine light" for health, the Ginger.io platform culls smartphone data, such as movement patterns and screen time, to develop health insights. After the co-founders met in 2010, the team participated in the TechStars accelerator in Boston.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 30, 2013
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Paul Sonnier: Founder of LinkedIn’s 17,000-member Digital Health group

As head of digital health strategy for the consulting firm Popper and Company, Paul Sonnier helps entrepreneurs develop and commercialize their products. He’s also a mentor for the accelerator Blueprint Health and founder of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn, which boasts nearly 17,000 members.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 23, 2013
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Cellanyx Diagnostics: CEO shares tips from the startup trenches

It hasn’t been a year since the Cellanyx Diagnostics team spun out their technology from Columbia University. But, halfway to raising $1 million worth of seed funding for the company, CEO Ashok Chander can already share tips from the trenches.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 16, 2013
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BioCurious: Bio-hacker space cofounder on funding and regulatory issues

BioCurious is a Silicon Valley bio-hacker space with a dual mission: community education and work with entrepreneurs. Cofounder Raymond McCauley, who is also chair of biotechnology at Singularity University, said BioCurious provides lab space, equipment and a community for entrepreneurs.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 09, 2013
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LUMO: Co-founder shares tips on seeking feedback and using networks

LUMOback is the first product by LUMO, a Palo Alto-based company founded by three entrepreneurs – including one who suffered back problems for years. Charles Wang, co-founder and CMO, shared what he’s learned since the company’s launch in 2011 and the product’s release last year.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 02, 2013
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Bioarray Therapeutics: CEO offers insights on sharing the company’s vision

The vision at Bioarray Therapeutics, a biotechnology company in Boston, is to improve cancer detection and treatment. By finding genes associated with cancer, the company is developing a diagnostic for breast cancer that can help doctors and patients choose the best treatment.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 26, 2013
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Atul Butte: Biotechnology entrepreneur on success and failure

As a biomedical informatics researcher and biotechnology entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley, Atul Butte has big ideas about the future of life science entrepreneurship. His Butte Lab works to solve genomic medicine problems through new developments in translational bioinformatics.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 19, 2013
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Morpheus Medical: Co-founder shares insights on securing funding and managing costs

With the goal of revolutionizing cardiac MRI, Morpheus Medical has developed software that takes the process from three hours to about 20 minutes. The company was launched about a year and a half ago when entrepreneurs who wanted to use computational processing to help with the diagnosis of disease came together with radiologists from Stanford University to commercialize the product.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 12, 2013
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DioGenix: CEO Offers Tips on Pursuing the Right Product and Investors

DioGenix, in Gaithersburg, Md., was founded in 2009 after CEO Larry Tiffany and his senior management team saw a clear clinical need: monitoring disease progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). Tiffany has an extensive background in biotech, as an IP attorney, and as a senior executive at small and mid-size biotech companies. Before DioGenix, he was senior vice president and general manager of genomics for another genomics research company, Gene Logic.

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 19, 2013
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O'Brien: Finding Startup Success as a Physician-Inventor Far From Healthcare Hotspots

Dr. Todd O’Brien has additional challenges beyond those encountered by most startup life science CEOs. The 48-year-old podiatrist still sees patients even while developing his latest innovation: an electronic tuning fork for measuring diabetes-related nerve damage in people’s feet. He's also building his company in Orono, Maine - far from any major healthcare hub.

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 19, 2013
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Medivo: Finding the Right Investors and Customers is Key to Business Success

Three years ago, Jason Bhan, MD, a family practitioner, went into business with a cousin—Sundeep Bhan, a serial entrepreneur—and a friend, Destry Sulkes, also an MD.  The three healthcare entrepreneurs founded Medivo, which developed tools to track symptoms, explain lab results, and provide personalized health information.

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 12, 2013
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TVAX: Cancer Researcher-Turned-Startup Founder Takes DIY Approach

It’s a cancer immunologist’s dream to discover a safe and effective way to coax the body’s own immune system into waging war against invading cancer cells. Building a startup company around that finding, though, is definitely not every scientist’s forte. For Gary W. Wood, making the leap from laboratory to C-suite seemed like the next logical step.

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 12, 2013
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