Health Reading List - Startup Digest - Health at TechCrunch and More - September 25th - October 2nd

Health Reading List September 25, 2015 Startup Highlights: Stitch, TrialMatch, IDoDrugs.Club TechCrunch Disrupt was this week, and there were a number health care companies that both participated in the Startup Battlefield and the Hackathon. TrialMatch and IDoDrugs were both results of the Hackathon. The former is a solution for matching patients with trials in a more efficient way. The latter pulls from open sources to let patients understand the interactions between drugs they might be taking.  Finally, Stitch got to the final round of the Battlefield because of it's promise to fix care coordination with a Slack-esque, HIPAA compliant communication platform. It's great to see entrepreneurs focusing on health care in the mainstream. On wards and up wards! As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. Health Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - Utility Infielder @ DocMatter Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Global Startup Battle is back for 2015! Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co. My Lunch With Shkreli: What We Should Learn From Pharma's Latest Monster Forbes If you didn't hear about Martin Shkreli this week, you were probably on vacation this week. Matthew Herper of Forbes has a great *Long Read* on the former hedge fund manager turned serial biopharma executive. It's definitely worth a read to get both sides of the story. What Shkreli did is obviously horrendous, but it's also quite a normal practice in the field... 3-D Printing's Next Act: Nerve Regeneration MIT Tech Review Nerve repair is an interesting field and besides traditional autografts, there are few options for severe nerve repair. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used 3D printing technologies to create a nerve repair substitute for rats. Pretty rad use of 3D printing, if I do say so myself. Biotech is Opening Up to Coders Popular Science As we all know, software is quickly eating the world, and especially health care with the rise of precision medicine and genomics. A fun take on the role of software engineering in the brave new world of health care.  Why Some Policy Experts Question Clinton's Plan to Contain Drug Costs New York Times After the Turing debacle this week, Hilary Clinton came out to say she is going to fix our broken pricing system. This NYT article dives into the reasons her plan may not be the best. Measuring Quality of Care for the Sickest Patients Harvard Business Review A great HBR piece by Diane E. Meier, MD on how we can define value for palliative patients in the post ACA world. Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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Enterprise Reading List - Startup Digest - September 25th - October 1st

Enterprise Reading List September 25, 2015 The latest news about growth and innovation within the enterprise space. Have a great weekend, Enterprise Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Mohammad Albattikhi - Acceleration Manager at Oasis500 Contact Mohammad Albattikhi at mohd.albattikhi@startupdigestmail.com Global Startup Battle is back for 2015! Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co. Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, A Managed Spark And Hadoop Big Data Service Tech Crunch "The new Google Cloud Dataproc service, which is now in beta, sits between managing the Spark data processing engine or Hadoop framework directly on virtual machines and a fully managed service like Cloud Dataflow, which lets you orchestrate your data pipelines on Google's platform." Intel is still on track to put its LTE modem chip in Apple's 2016 iPhones Venture Beat "While Intel's new 7360 LTE modem will occupy a socket on the circuit boards of some new iPhones next year, our sources said it remains unclear exactly which iPhone SKUs will contain the chip. Many, if not most, 2016 iPhones will contain Qualcomm's 9X45 LTE modem chip." Apple Targets Electric-Car Shipping Date for 2019 WSJ "Apple Inc. is accelerating efforts to build an electric car, designating it internally as a "committed project" and setting a target ship date for 2019, according to people familiar with the matter." Pebble introduces its first round smartwatch The Verge "Time Round might be the most impressive watchPebble has made yet — it's very comfortable to wear thanks to its thin profile and light weight, and it just looks like a normal watch you might wear on any given day" Blue Jeans Network Raises $76.5M To Bring Video Conferencing Beyond The Office Tech Crunch "NEA led the Series E round, joined by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, Glynn Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Quadrille Capital. Jeter Ventures, a new fund launched by MLB all-star Derek Jeter, also participated" Samsung's SSD sets sick speed standard The Verge "Samsung's latest hard drive — the 950 Pro SSD — is the fastest consumer SSD it's ever made. By incorporating V-NAND and NVMe technology (that's Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface for the non-acronym crowd), the 950 Pro can offer sequential read speeds of up to 2,500MBps and sequential write speeds as fast as 1,500MBps." Groupon to cut 1,100 jobs, exit 7 countries Tech In Asia Rich Williams, CEO, explains: "We've taken a close, honest look at where we do business. We saw that the investment required to bring our technology, tools, and marketplace to every one of our 40 plus countries isn't commensurate with the return at this point. We believe that in order for our geographic footprint to be an even bigger advantage, we need to focus our energy and dollars on fewer countries." Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - Pirates? - September 25th - October 2nd

Startup Reading List September 25, 2015 It's a Dave McClure classic from eight years ago and it's in easily digestible video format. Along with the three other reads for this week, you'll be in good shape after this weekend. Enjoy! Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Chris McCann - Community @ Greylock Partners Contact Chris McCann at chris@startupdigest.com Global Startup Battle is back for 2015! Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co. Platforms, Distribution and Audience Benedict Evans "Buzzfeed has been as innovative in the revenue model as in distribution, thinking about what advertising should be and how it should work rather than just throwing up banner ads and 10 meg of ad-tech JavaScript and hoping for the best. Twitter didn't do that either, and I doubt Medium would. This is partly an advantage of scale. You have to be very big indeed to be able to create new ad formats from scratch and persuade advertisers to pay real money for them. So, again, you want to be part of a network - a platform - of some kind, not just a publishing tool. A platform can create new revenue models where a CMS cannot." Recruiting A Killer Sales Force Lars Dalgaard "Many interviews in Silicon Valley end up being a bunch of self-promotional, silly trick questions that may get you into Mensa but don't indicate much else. Or, they're just full of hot air … and when markets are as hot as they are now, everyone seems desperate to hire quickly, while overlooking the basics." Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! Dave McClure Classic but important talk by 500 Startups' Dave McClure on key metrics to track. Hiring Data Scientists Trey Causey "Interviewing is extremely stressful. Make sure you build in plenty of small breaks for the candidate to use the restroom, have water/coffee/etc., and recollect their thoughts. If the candidate wants to whiteboard things, let them, but don't force them. Treat them like humans that might be your co-worker one day soon!" Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - You Have Nothing - September 18th - September 25th

Startup Reading List September 18, 2015 Oh how we love Dilbert. The comic can distill the most complex of ideas into three simple frames. Take a look at "Value of A Start Up Idea" Enjoy this week's diverse set of reads. See you next week. Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Chris McCann - Community @ Greylock Partners Contact Chris McCann at chris@startupdigest.com Global Startup Battle is back for 2015! Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co. The Cost of an Introduction Sam Gerstenzang "The rest of the world assumes power is concentrated at the top, and the powerful make their way up the existing hierarchy slowly. Silicon Valley assumes that power is developed quickly and from unknown sources." MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games Seth Bling Seth and Mario demonstrate how machine learning works. Fascinating! Vertical SaaS Startups Require Different Go To Market Than Horizontal SaaS Companies Tomasz Tunguz "Because vertical SaaS companies limit their potential market size by focusing on just one type of customer, they must employ a differentiated strategy to win disproportionate share of smaller market." Getting Out of a Bad Place Derek Sivers "Empty time has the POTENTIAL to be filled with nourishing and awesome new actions and people, whereas filling it with half-ass things and people kills all that potential and possibility." Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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Health Reading List - Startup Digest - SimX, Peter Thiel, and DARPA - September 18th - September 25th

Health Reading List September 18, 2015 Startup Highlight: SimX AR and VR have some pretty interesting implications for medicine, specifically around education and simulation. SimX has been around for some time, but has some of the most compelling technology out there bringing cheaper, more reliably simulation technology to teaching institutions. As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. Health Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - Utility Infielder @ DocMatter Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Global Startup Battle is back for 2015! Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co. A cure for health care inefficiency? The value and geography of venture capital in the digital health sector There have been a number of analyses out there of investment in digital health, namely from Startup Health and Rock Health. Brookings weighed in, check out their study here. Peter Thiel Explains Biotech Investing Rationale: Get Rid of Randomness Biotech investments are notoriously risky relative to tech generally, so it's great to hear one of the best investors of our time discuss how he thinks about investing in the space.  Transforming How People Experience Health - Dr. Douglas Wood, Mayo Clinic Another great interview from Startup Health, "Dr. Douglas Wood discusses how his strategy behind innovating to help patients better make decisions about their health and what the future looks like for health innovation." FDA, drug companies clash over off-label uses Pharma companies are continuing to evoke First Amendment rights as they push for Off Label discussions. The Boston Globe discusses how this issue has evolved over time and the latest suit from Pacira.  A Proven New Model for Reimbursing Physicians Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD discusses how he changed physician compensation at Geisinger in order to improve outcomes. A great read from HBR.  Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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Health Reading List - Startup Digest - September 11th - September 18th

Health Reading List September 11, 2015 Startup Highlight: Inspired Patient "Patients and caregivers today are increasingly challenged by the complexity of the health care journey. Patients, families and caregivers are overwhelmed with information, anxiety about the journey and confused by the process. And professionals face similar challenges in engaging and inspiring patients to the best health outcome possible.  Inspired Patient provides a web platform for patients to effectively manage their health journey by providing collaboration, organization and documentation tools for the patient and their health team." As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think everyone else would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro. Health Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - Utility Infielder @ DocMatter Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Tomorrow, Today. Connecting Investors with the Hottest Startups this September 21-23 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt is the most anticipated tech event of the year coming to San Francisco this September 21-23. Come for the fireside chats and panels on hot tech topics with thought leaders (view the full agenda here), a stroll through Startup and Hardware Alley, and the iconic Startup Battlefield competition. Leave knowing you’re one step ahead of the future. #TCDisrupt Make sure you get your tickets! On Digital Health Care - Networks and Marketplaces Jonathan Libov and Angela Tran Kingyen released the 4th Part in their series on Digital Health. Each one has been insightful and informative, as such I highly recommend this weeks take on networks and market places! Delivering Affordable Cancer Care A great study on how we can think about delivering cost effective care for cancer patients, especially in the new world of precision medicine. It's a long read, but definitely worth it. Peter Thiel Backs Biotech "Unicorn" Fighting Cancer Stem Cells "Are stem cells at the root of common cancers? A startup named Stemcentrx thinks so." Read more about Stemcentrx and their fight against stem cells here. Are digital health technologies really good for our health? You can't throw a stick without hitting another "step counting" device in the valley today. I've always felt without any clinical evidence, these apps and devices were basically snake oil. This article explores that hypothesis.  How Rock Health Went From Accelerator To Venture Fund In Five Years Rock Health's five year anniversary was this week. Read the background and history of the country's most famous digital health accelerator. Manage Subscription Submit Event View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2015 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy.

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