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Individual Blog Posts

  • Crowdfunding and the ninety nine percent

    I have been following the idea of “crowd-funding” for several years and am a great fan. A couple of weeks ago I was having lunch with a colleague who is starting a new crowd-funding site. As we discussed it, I realized that crowd-funding represents an antidote to one of the many ways in which today…

  • Second opinions, IBM’s Watson, and Crowdsourcing

    Second opinions in medicine have always been a good idea. With the rise of artificial intelligence, and crowd sourcing, the concept of a “second opinion” is changing in some interesting ways. I spent last week at Singularity University’s FutureMed, which I thoroughly recommend. It was a densely packed week full of exposure to emerging technologies like…

  • Primary care health, USA: the 401(k) model?

    I have been spending a lot of time recently exploring Health 2.0 (digital health, quantified self, wireless health, etc) and trying to read the tea leaves about how the US healthcare system is likely to change, as total costs continue on a seemingly unsupportable long term trajectory. I see an interesting analogy to the history…

  • Investment Banks for small growth businesses

    So, what do you do if you are a small (revenue of $1-50M), growth startup that needs a good investment banker to help do a strategic partnering or M&A deal? Several of my companies have had this challenge over the last few years, and I am thinking about a better way to go about this. 

  • “Lean” medical device, cleantech, telco startups

    The Lean Startup movement is a good example of the new internet-company methodologies mentioned in my last post. I got around to reading Eric Ries’ book over Thanksgiving. I liked it a lot, and I have been mulling over what its lessons are for non-internet businesses – particularly for the sort of science-based business I…

  • Can science-based startups learn from Web 2.0?

    For startups developing web-focused businesses, the ecosystem has changed enormously in the last 2-3 years, almost entirely for the better. In contrast, in the world of new ventures based on hardcore science (cleantech, medical devices, biotech, etc.), as far as I can see it is more or less “business as usual”, and in some areas…

  • Reinventing the Board Meeting

    Very relevant blog by Steve Blank on Reinventing the Board meeting for startups. I think the concept we call here [at Acceleration Co-op] the “Virtual Advisory Board” is targeted at many of the issues mentioned in the blog posting, although we have been focusing on advisory boards rather than Boards of Directors.

  • Finding the killer app for that hot technology

    Especially for the vast reservoir of cutting edge technology developed in places like the US national laboratories, a big challenge is often figuring out creative new “killer applications” for a technology, originally developed for non-commercial applications (eg military, space, etc). This post is about some recent success we had at the Acceleration Co-op in this…

  • Bridges to Silicon Valley from other countries

    Spent the last couple of days at an interesting conference called Incubate 2.0, organized by Startup Cause. The idea was to discuss how various initiatives to “help entrepreneurs” might collaborate/work together/learn from each other. 

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