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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.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 19, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Growth
A Health Data Revolution? For Entrepreneurs It Has Just Begun.: At the FutureMed conference at Singularity University in the Silicon Valley this month, innovators from throughout the health field gathered for sessions on the future of medicine. A session on data-driven health provided insights into fascinating healthcare innovations centered on the use of health data. And it offered ideas for entrepreneurs looking to join the data revolution.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 16, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Creation
One Thing Life Science Entrepreneurs Can't Have? Fetishes: There’s no silver bullet for becoming a successful life science entrepreneur. But at a session on entrepreneurship and innovation at the FutureMed conference at Singularity University in the Silicon Valley last week, three panelists shared their tips on achieving entrepreneurial success.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 15, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Ideation
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:
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 14, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Ideation Creation
How to Use Book Smarts to Build a Digital Health Startup: One way for life science and digital health entrepreneurs to innovate: turn landmark literature into accessible, web-based programs.

That’s what Omada Health, a San Francisco startup, has done for diabetes prevention. In a session on the future of intervention at the FutureMed conference at Singularity University in the Silicon Valley last week, the company’s co-founder and CEO Sean Duffy explained the effort.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 13, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Creation
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.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 12, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Execution Creation
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.
[More]; Posted by: MedCityNews .com; on February 12, 2013; Comments (0); Category: Growth
Lessons from a young biotech leader: A young biotech leader is sharing lessons learned about launching a startup. Read more about her take on intellectual property, funding and other topics.
[More]; Posted by: Deanna Pogorelc; on August 24, 2012; Comments (0)
How to build a great startup team: Hiring a team for your startup should begin with a core team of three people and build from there. Read more about a strategy for building your team.
[More]; Posted by: Jane Levesque; on August 23, 2012; Comments (0)
Venture capital deals drop for life sciences sector in second quarter: Venture capital funding declined in the second quarter for the life sciences sector. Read more about how medical device startups and biotech companies fared.
[More]; Posted by: Arundhati Parmar; on August 21, 2012; Comments (0)