January 11, 2017
Tongue Tied: Speaking Candidly About Capital
I cringe when I read a headline that says a startup “pulled in”, “landed” or even “scooped ” new funding. Or better yet, when a…
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January 11, 2017
September 18, 2012
The Question Every Healthcare IT Startup Must Answer
When I started in the healthcare field more than 25 years ago, the only thing that a healthcare IT startup needed was a good idea — a new technology, maybe,…
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June 29, 2012
Week in Review: The Supreme Court’s Healthcare Ruling, ThingWorx Partners with Smart Structures, and Bridgevine Names JP Bewley CEO
Yesterday the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, a decision that garnered a flurry of supporters and detractors who filled news reports…
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How West and East Coast Dynamics Help Startups Succeed
Silicon Valley has been a hotbed for entrepreneurship and innovation for the last four decades. It’s packed with big thinkers, highly talented engineers, and VCs…
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Week in Review: What Happened in Vegas? CES Gave PixelOptics Rave Reviews!
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference wasn’t the only event on our radar this week. The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest consumer…
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Week in Review: VentureBeat, ThingWorx 2.0, and AHS Adds Two
The technology industry made headlines this week as Google enjoyed the public release of Google+ and Google Wallet, while Facebook announced changes to their platform—bringing…
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3 Tactics for Building a Successful Business in a Bad Economy
It’s the biggest question in our “New Normal” economy—how do you build a successful business during a global recession? Despite the lack of any discernable…
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