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C3N: Advancing Entrepreneurs' Ideas Through Clinical Connections
Christina Sherwood
4/3/2013
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The team at Ginger.io, a Cambridge, Mass.-based health data company, had a great product: a behavior analytics platform using smartphone data to create health insights. But they needed a clinical partner to help get access to patients and physicians. That’s where C3N came in.

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LUMO: Co-founder shares tips on seeking feedback and using networks
Christina Sherwood
4/2/2013
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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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eMed's 6 to follow in entrepreneurship
Chris Seper
3/29/2013
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Read about the six lifescience and healthcare entrepreneurs we'll be following this week on twitter.

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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: How legal reform can promote innovation
Christina Sherwood
3/28/2013
Blog Resource
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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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Bioarray Therapeutics: CEO offers insights on sharing the company’s vision
Christina Sherwood
3/26/2013
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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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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: How entrepreneurs can improve productivity and quality in healthcare
Christina Sherwood
3/21/2013
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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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Funding Sources for Life Science Startups
Christina Sherwood
3/20/2013
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Bringing a healthcare drug or device to market requires an intense amount of capital. Federal regulation in the United States, Europe and beyond requires clinical testing and trials, as well as large sales staffs and other expenses. The early requirements for investing can force entrepreneurs to seek private, dilutive investing and rapidly cut into the amount of ownership of the company by the entrepreneur.

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Atul Butte: Biotechnology entrepreneur on success and failure
Christina Sherwood
3/19/2013
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As a biomedical informatics researcher and biotechnology entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley, Atul Butte has big ideas for 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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Weekly Wisdom from Kauffman: Startup Visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs could jumpstart economy
Christina Sherwood
3/14/2013
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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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Why startups have to pitch attorneys like investors (video)
Chris Seper
3/14/2013
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Startups are not just a risk for investors. They are also a risk for the attorneys and other service providers that choose to work with them. That's because there's no guarantee an early-stage company will be around to pay a law firm for all the work it's done - let alone become a long-term customer.

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