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One on One with a Venture Capital Partner – Investing in Healthcare

We met with Skip Fleshman, Partner at Asset Management Ventures at the Connected Health Symposium in San Diego. We asked him about trends in venture capital funding. Here is our interview..

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5 Tough Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Launch Your Health Startup

If you’re keeping tabs on the health startup space, you know that it’s white-hot! Digital, SaaS, mobile, even hip new medical devices that “talk” to your iPhone.

A Great Leap Forward in Spine and Limb Lengthening Surgeries

Every year thousands of children undergo limb length and scoliosis correction surgery… Doctors and medical device companies have long sought a better way and that is where Ellipse Technologies has succeeded.

Calling All UC Alumni Entrepreneurs: Get Ready to LAUNCH with the Lester Center!

Are you a current or aspiring entrepreneur?  And are you (or one of your core startup team) an alumnus of the UC educational system?  Then listen up – there are changes happening to the long-established startup competition sponsored by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship that have widened the scope to include alumni from all of […]

Hottest IPO of the Year: Giving Legs To Previously Disabled

If you are looking for success in medical devices, ReWalk (RWLK) would be a good one to emulate. Today, ReWalk executives rang the opening bell at Nasdaq. Business press has crowned them Hottest IPO of the Year. In case your missed it: Marlborough, MA—June 26, 2014 — Exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced today that the U.S. […]

Connecting Consumers to Healthcare

“The consumer role in healthcare is changing from passive to active. Changes in the health care industry are arming consumers with more knowledge and better tools to be more engaged than ever in their health. These changes are shifting the power dynamics and economics of the industry.”

Produced by the research and industry analyst team at Parks Associates, the two day event delivered a powerful program for innovators everywhere. Here I highlight the points that heard that define this rapid growing section

Are You Ready for Some CES? You Have to Be If You Are in Consumer Health

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest event that ties technology to consumers in the US. Over the past 3 years, the section covering health, fitness, and health care has exploded. Everyone wants to have control of their own bodies and health. We are all looking for ways of monitoring, analyzing, and improving our health – whether it is through better communications with our doctors and medical support, our personal fitness, or …

Hanging with the Hackers at MedHack

Have you ever attended a health hackathon?  If you haven’t, you should give it a shot, especially if you have caught the “entrepreneurial bug”.  I attended MedHack last Saturday in San Francisco, at UCSF’s McLaren Hall.  MedHack is an event produced by Prebacked,  a health accelerator located in San Francisco. Before letting anyone code wildly […]

On Location at Stanford: MedicineX

Last week I attended the first ever MedicineX workshop event on the Stanford campus.  It surpassed my expectations (which were frankly pretty high, given the source) regarding the content, the caliber of the speakers and the general attendees/networking.  I only wished that I had more time to meet people by the end of the day. […]

3D Tissue Engineering….Closer Than We Think

We recently posted a video on our site of an ear being printed with a 3D printer and MM–352while there is great “wow factor” in watching it form through the injection process, the reality is we are a very long way off from being able to print body parts and organs that can be attached or implanted. That said, Molecular Matrix, a Biotech start up in Davis, CA has developed an inexpensive scaffold that can allow cells to grow naturally in a three dimensional environment