science to profits

Category: Market product fit

  • Activity-tracking Sensor System: Older Adults Home Alone

    Mary Hulme (a geriatric consultant and dementia care specialist) and I just published a non-fiction e-Book (on “Activity-tracking Home Sensor Systems“). If you are at all interested in the topic, we would love it if you would check it out. 🙂 We did a lot of research on this new class of products, that are…

  • Mentoring Lean healthcare startups @ UCSF. Fascinating.

    I am a mentor at present in Steve Blanks course at UCSF on lean startup methodology for healthcare startups. It’s fascinating to see the methodology being deployed simultaneously across a whole cohort of startups. The main takeaway is just how rapidly the “get out of the building” approach leads to important insights by the entrepreneur.…

  • Crowdfunding done right: Scanadu’s tricorder

    I’ve been excited about the potential of crowdfunding for quite a while (here and here). The campaign that launched this morning on Indiegogo by Scanadu (developing a Tricorder) is a good example of a campaign done right, and shows the potential of this approach. The campaign reached its goal of $100K in 2 hours. It’s…

  • “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…

  • 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…