More people are touched by healthcare and its entrepreneurs than any major industry. Healthcare innovation is happening in many locations, and Entrepreneurship.org’s eMed Community unites healthcare entrepreneurs and their partners through the power of ideas. To read more, go to www.entrepreneurship.org.
The Kauffman Foundation has launched an eBook series featuring insights from healthcare entrepreneurs who share their real-world experiences with other founders making their way in the healthcare space.
Let’s face some cold, hard facts. Banks still aren’t lending much money, and venture capital cash, while spread more liberally in 2011 than in previous years, is still largely hard to come by. The proof, as they say, is in the data: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reports that business lending is down for five […]
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The government is working on shoring up patent processing for 2012, a move that can only help Uncle Sam’s relationship with healthcare entrepreneurs. The U.S. government has stepped up its public relations effort for healthcare entrepreneurs, most likely to build support for the polarizing and controversial Health Care Reform Act, which is already in operation […]
New York City has long been home to the big, brawny business monolith. From Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs to huge media empires to CBS and Time-Warner, the Fortune 500 has regularly taken a big bite out of the Big Apple. But at the other end of the dial, small businesses — at least […]
Funding for the healthcare information technology sector saw robust growth in the third quarter of 2011. According to data culled by Mercom Capital Group, venture capital funding for healthcare IT firms grew by leaps and bounds for the third quarter of 2011. The research shows that $207 million in new inflows funneled into healthcare IT […]
Now here’s a line that should draw the interest of cash-strapped healthcare small business CEOs. “What would the world be like if we invested 50 percent of our assets within 50 miles of where we live?” It’s the central theme — and the opening line of the last section — of the new book, Locavesting: […]
Share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health, healthcare navigation, and more.
The U.S. Secret Service is the government organization (along with the Office of Homeland Security) tasked with the burgeoning problem of company security breaches. The Secret Service considers the issue of breaches — more colloquially known as “hacking” — a critical issue, and one that has the potential to ruin scores of small businesses. Now, a new […]
Word was that Alexander the Great valued learning so much that he told his biographers that he was more indebted to Aristotle for providing him with knowledge than he was to his own father and mother for gifting him with life. Today’s startup business owners place a high value on learning, too. A new study […]
New business incubators are a sure-fire way to nurture great entrepreneurial ventures; the data bears that out. According to a new study from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, business incubators are a better source of regional business growth than any type of government-sponsored public works initiative. The EDA data reveals that incubators […]
As 2011 winds down, small business owners looking for new financing options would do well to take a slice of the holidays and use it to study the two most common startup funding options — angel investing versus venture capital. In this two-part series, we’ll do just that. And before the year ends, look for […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The debt crisis in Europe and the continued sluggish economy and protracted stalemate over deficit reduction in the United States are clouding the outlook for financing emerging biomedical research, according to a panel headed up by financier and FasterCures chairman Michael Milken. Milken and a panel of three other Wall Street financiers at the Partnering […]
There’s an old Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times.” Healthcare providers who want to put their products and services applications on mobile phones — “mobile apps” in technology lingo — probably wouldn’t argue that point as life certainly is more interesting each passing day. The core issue for providers who make medical and […]
Venture capital is a fickle, prickly industry. Like any investor, too many venture funders follow the herd, and place the bulk of their bets on the next “hot market.” When the expected profits in that market don’t materialize, or materialize and then dry up, venture capitalists snap their checkbooks shut, grab their Armani briefcases, and […]
Healthcare entrepreneurs like to call their own shots; there’s no doubt about that. But savvy startup owners know they can’t do it all alone — over the short-term or the long-term. That’s why hiring and grooming quality staffers is such a high priority for small business owners. Few businesses have thrived by the work ethic […]
At first glance, you’d think that the ranks of the startup owner profession took a big league hit over the past three years, thanks to a lousy economic climate. But that’s not actually true. Economist Scott Shane, writing in a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Report dated March 24, 2011, says that one measure […]