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Considering crowdfunding? Get an in-depth look at one new platform

Looking for early-stage financing for your life science or digital health startup? Crowdfunding, in which individuals and teams can raise money over the Internet from dozens or thousands of sources in small amounts, has become a popular financing tool.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on May 16, 2013
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Translational Medicine Alliance uncovers opportunities for life science entrepreneurs

Because significant funding is needed to develop new, innovative life science and digital health products and tools, fewer ideas are making the leap from research institutions to product development teams. This clash between the short-term, earnings-driven needs of the medical marketplace and the risky, lengthy, and capital-intensive process of bringing medical ideas to fruition is a major challenge facing modern medicine.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on May 09, 2013
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What the new age of health care means for life science entrepreneurs

David Ewing Duncan, director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, published an "old-fashioned call to arms and action plan for a new age of health care." The Personalized Health Manifesto was developed with the participation of about three dozen life science leaders in science, medicine, business, and more.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on May 02, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Lessons in innovation from China and India

Thanks to the movement of research and development to China and India, scientists there are quickly developing the ability to innovate and create their own intellectual property, according to a Kauffman Foundation study.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 25, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: The 'friendliest' places to start your company

The Silicon Valley might not be the "friendliest" place to start your life science or digital health company. A small business survey released this month by the Kauffman Foundation and Thumbtack.com gave Austin, Virginia Beach, and Houston top honors as the friendliest cities for small businesses.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 18, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: What the ‘cost disease’ means for entrepreneurs

It’s well known -- and deeply concerning -- that the cost of health care in the United States is exploding. A Kauffman Foundation-funded book, The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't, explores the cause of this problem and provides an explanation.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 11, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: The role of academia in drug development

A Kauffman Foundation town hall meeting explored how the government, nonprofits and academic institutions could help enhance drug development and bring more effective drugs to market.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on April 04, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: How legal reform can promote innovation

As a life science entrepreneur, you surely have ideas on how changing legal rules and policies could promote innovation and accelerate U.S. economic growth. The Kauffman Foundation, seeking suggestions on how to jumpstart the struggling economy, convened America’s leading legal scholars and social scientists to offer their thoughts.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 28, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: How entrepreneurs can improve productivity and quality in healthcare

With U.S. healthcare costs rising about 2.5 percent faster than inflation, there’s an urgent need to improve productivity and quality in American healthcare. A Kauffman Foundation report found that open access to medical data could help find that cost-benefit balance.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 21, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Startup Visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs could jumpstart economy

With Washington buzzing about the possibility of comprehensive immigration reform this year, a new Kauffman Foundation white paper showed how Startup Visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs could help jumpstart the economy.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 14, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Immigrant scientists help to improve cancer survival rates

With immigrants in more than 40 percent of the cancer researcher slots at America’s top cancer institutes, these scientists are playing an integral role in improving cancer survival rates in the United States, according to a Kauffman Foundation-funded National Foundation for American Policy report released last month.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on March 07, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: America’s high-growth health and drug companies reside in some unexpected locales

More than 6 percent of Inc. 500 firms work in the health and drug space, making it the No. 5 industrial sector for these fast-growing companies from 2005 to 2010. But these medical innovators aren’t all concentrated in the Silicon Valley.

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Posted by: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
on February 28, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Breaking Down Barriers to Life Sciences Commercialization

Because life sciences entrepreneurship thrives on harnessing new technologies, spurring innovation, and growing companies, the Kauffman Foundation met in 2003 with the Panel of Advisors on the Life Sciences to help advance those goals.

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 21, 2013
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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Old(er) = Entrepreneur

The archetypal entrepreneur is a strapping 20-something. But we shouldn’t count out Baby Boomers as the next innovators.

Dane Stangler, senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, uncovered these facts in some recent Kauffman Foundation research:

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Posted by: MedCityNews .com
on February 14, 2013
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