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O'Brien: Finding Startup Success as a Physician-Inventor Far From Healthcare Hotspots
2/19/2013
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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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Medivo: Finding the Right Investors and Customers is Key to Business Success
2/12/2013
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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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DioGenix: CEO Offers Tips on Pursuing the Right Product and Investors
2/19/2013
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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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How to Use Book Smarts to Build a Digital Health Startup
2/13/2013
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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.

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A Health Data Revolution? For Entrepreneurs It Has Just Begun.
2/16/2013
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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.

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One Thing Life Science Entrepreneurs Can't Have? Fetishes
2/15/2013
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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.

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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Old(er) = Entrepreneur
2/14/2013
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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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TVAX: Cancer Researcher-turned-startup Founder Takes DIY Approach
2/19/2013
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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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Medical device startups need discipline of stage-gate process
5/31/2011
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Pharmaceutical sales jobs difficult, with or without iPads
5/26/2011
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