Health Reading List - Startup Digest - Kuveda, Big Data, and Finger Prick Tests - November 27th - December 4th

Health Reading List November 27, 2015 Startup Highlight: Kuveda There are a number of companies looking at personalized medicine and genomics specifically for the purpose of cancer care. One of the main differences with Kuveda, is they have no dog in the fight for the eventual course of action for the patient (vs. other platforms that also have therapeutics that they are pushing). It will be amazing to see how the industry evolves, and how companies like Kuveda differentiate as more "big data" players enter the cancer market around personalized medicine. 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 Voting for GSB Now Open! Choose the Winner of Global Startup Battle! Voting is now open for GSB 2015 and ends Dec 4th. Check out the videos and vote for your favorite: go.up.co/vote. The role of big data in medicine "In this interview, Dr. Eric Schadt, the founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at New York's Mount Sinai Health System, tells McKinsey's Sastry Chilukuri how data-driven approaches to research can help patients, in what ways technology has the potential to transform medicine and the healthcare system, and how the Icahn Institute is building its talent base. An edited transcript of Schadt's remarks follows." Your Doctor Doesn't Want to Hear About Your Fitness-Tracker Data I've harped on this for a while... but all these wearables that are out there can be tracking data that does not have a clear clinical use case... this article explores that thought specifically around fitness data we can collect as health consumers. Blood test results vary from drop to drop in fingerprick tests Rice University isn't waiting for Theranos to release data around finger prick tests, they went ahead and did a study on their own. The results aren't great and found that test results can vary significantly drop to drop. EHR market as viewed through meaningful use attestation stats A deep dive into the CMS data around meaningful use for EHRs shows, "top vendors have solidified market dominance in inpatient and outpatient spheres." The Pfizer–Allergan Merger Is a Disgrace A piece that does not take a light stance on the Pfizer-Allergan "inversion" merger.  Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine & Hydrogel Drug Delivery "In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty Member Dave Mooney discusses programmable nanomaterials approaches to fighting disease. Mooney explains how a cancer vaccine, developed by his team and currently in a clinical trial at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, can train one's own immune system to target specific cancer cells. He also describes the development of novel hydrogels that find application in drug delivery systems and tissue regeneration." 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 - Reading list in a reading list - November 27th - December 4th

Startup Reading List November 27, 2015 This week we are featuring an article by the team at Zenefits. They highlighted 18 articles to help you grow your business. So you actually have 22 articles to read. You still here? Get to reading. Have a wonderful weekend readers. Zubin 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 Voting for GSB Now Open! Choose the Winner of Global Startup Battle! Voting is now open for GSB 2015 and ends Dec 4th. Check out the videos and vote for your favorite: go.up.co/vote. Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky Chris McCann "In debt and desperate one midnight, we had the idea if the "air beds" in air bed and breakfast wasn't working — maybe we can sell "breakfast" instead. We started thinking about president themed cereal and we convinced a producer to make cereal for us and since we couldn't pay them he would get a portion of the sales." 5000 Hour with Jon Bradford Tak Lo "Jon is ridiculously good at asking questions, in that those questions often compel the recipient to take a step back and pause before answering. Part of the secret is to find and anticipate questions that can cause friction, and to ask precisely those questions." Going from Meh to Awesome Shiva Rajaraman Great talk by all things product head Shiva Rajaraman. Formerly a product manager at Google. 18 Top Stories to Help Grow Your Business Deanna Lazzaroni Great curating of blog articles for startups by one of our favorite startups, Zenefits. 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 - November 20th - November 27th

Health Reading List November 20, 2015 Startup Highlight: Diagnostics for All Diagnostics for All won the 100k Competition at MIT a number of years back. A pretty great mission of bringing low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. In light of the scandals around Theranos, I thought it would be interesting to highlight a company that is far less known but still trying to tackle the same issue of diagnostic costs. 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 Calling All Teams for Global Startup Battle! For the first time ever, we’re unlocking Global Startup Battle! Now teams from outside Startup Weekend can compete in GSB with the Open Track - no matter where they’re from or how they started. Visit go.up.co/gsb-open for more info & to apply! Improving Diagnosis in Health Care — The Next Imperative for Patient Safety A simple way to improve the health care system? Improve our diagnostic abilities. NEJM goes into detail on a new report that, "emphasizes that diagnostic errors may be one of the most common and harmful of patient-safety problems." Andreessen Horowitz Gets A New GP, And A New Fund Another piece of news that demonstrates the Valley's focus on biotech/health care. Andreessen not only has raised its first sector specific fund, but also hired a bio tech veteran, Vijay Pande. Will The San Francisco Bay Area Dominate Digital Healthcare? "Data compiled by Rock Health, a San Francisco digital healthcare accelerator/investor, shows that the Bay Area is gaining ground in digital healthcare investing (see chart below). Three years ago, Boston and the Bay Area were on par. Now the Bay Area is 2x Boston or New York. What's happening?" Let's Ensure Digital Health Care Does More Help Than Harm I always love some good dissenting opinions that ask us to not get carried away with digital health. Let's remember to have clinical end-points, and remember what the patient experience ACTUALLY is... read more here. The Weekly Briefing - The Cost Curve Gets Bent "This week on the podcast: Two bold experiments to change health care spending are now underway. Dan, Rivka, and Rob debate Maryland's radical plan to change how hospitals get paid. (Starts at the 1:45 mark.) The panel explains Medicare's decision to start mandating bundled payments. (Starts at 13:20.) And stay tuned for the electives, and what to do the next time you suffer from paresthesia. (Starts at 25:35.)" 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 - A Free Book! - November 20th - November 27th

Startup Reading List November 20, 2015 Had a chance to flip through Jeff Hyman's book on hiring rockstars. Worth a read and covers various roles, including sales and business development. Find it here. Enjoy this week's digest. Feedback always welcome. 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 Calling All Teams for Global Startup Battle! For the first time ever, we’re unlocking Global Startup Battle! Now teams from outside Startup Weekend can compete in GSB with the Open Track - no matter where they’re from or how they started. Visit go.up.co/gsb-open for more info & to apply! Things That Aren't Progress Aaron Harris "Winning awards - This is another one of those pieces of external validation. Certainly helpful when proving to your mother that you're not wasting your time, but not material to the success of your company." Passing on Investing in Twitter & Zynga Jason Calacanis "You don't need to know if the idea will succeed — just the person." Before You Learn to Code, Ask Yourself Why Maya Prohovnik "I believe that a good code school can be a potentially good place to get started with basic programming techniques for certain people with certain goals. (Note all the qualifiers in that sentence.)" The Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader First Round "We ended up creating a rule where we wouldn't even start a project until everyone who was needed could be dedicated," says Pisoni. "Then we'd put them together in a small, autonomous team that didn't require any permissions or dependencies to get things done." 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 - Turkish Delight Edition - November 13th - November 20th

Startup Reading List November 13, 2015 This week we have some really hard to find content presented in Istanbul at the Webrazzi Summit. Check out Brendan Baker's five pitch mistakes and Dalton Caldwell, YCombinator Partner, talking about choosing a startup idea. Brendan was formerly with AngelList and Greylock. Check out what he's doing now... Not a startup but definitely want to invest in his work.  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 Calling All Teams for Global Startup Battle! For the first time ever, we’re unlocking Global Startup Battle! Now teams from outside Startup Weekend can compete in GSB with the Open Track - no matter where they’re from or how they started. Visit go.up.co/gsb-open for more info & to apply! 5 Pitch Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Brendan Baker "A pitch is is a sequence of story arcs" How to Choose an Idea Dalton Caldwell "Why are you excited to work on this? Is this excitement contagious?" Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs Benedict Evans "So, 'real work' changes with new tools - first the tools fit the work, and then the work changes to fit the tools" How Much Cash Should Your SaaS Startup Burn? Tomasz Tunguz "The goal of this exercise is to determine exactly how far into the future the business must be in order to raise money at an increased valuation relative to the last round if multiples halve" 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 - More CRISPR, M&A in Pharma, and 2016 Predicitions - November 13th - November 20th

Health Reading List November 13, 2015 Startup Highlight: OrthoSensor OrthoSensor is a pretty cool connected orthopedics company that calls itself a "musculoskeletal digital health" company. They basically created an implant that can be included in a total knee that provides feedback to surgeons on the state of tendons that can often require a fix. OrthoSensor is the start of what will be a slew of connected implants in the future. As always, if you come across news, research, 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 Calling All Teams for Global Startup Battle! For the first time ever, we’re unlocking Global Startup Battle! Now teams from outside Startup Weekend can compete in GSB with the Open Track - no matter where they’re from or how they started. Visit go.up.co/gsb-open for more info & to apply! 6 Medtech Predictions to Watch Out for in 2016 It's November, which means we will start seeing predications galore! Here's the first one for Medtech... Qualcomm Exec Speaks On Future Of Medical Devices I specifically love James Mault's differentiation between consumer health and health tech... something that gets overlooked a lot in today's hype. A great interview! "Qualcomm's James Mault spoke to "The Gray Sheet" about the need to upgrade devices to be more user-friendly as they become used more in home settings, said cybersecurity concerns need to be taken into perspective but a malicious hack is bound to happen, and chatted about how he tests for security on his company's technology." Are doctors more willing to see pharma sales reps now? I spend a lot of time thinking about how hard it is for sales reps to get in front of doctors... which makes this new study interesting. I still tend to think physicians have grown far more closed off in the last 5 years, but see the flip side of the argument here! The Crispr Quandary One of two high profile CRISPR articles this week, this one from the NYT. The Gene Hackers Article number two on CRISPR... this one from the New Yorker. SVHealth Monthly – StartUps & Keynote by Ryan Howard, Founder of PracticeFusion "Are you interested in learning more about how healthtech is changing our lives? Join us to hear guest speaker Ryan Howard, Founder and Chairman of the Board at PracticeFusion share his perspective on "How To: Not get screwed as a founder!".  A recognized technology pioneer,  Ryan founded PracticeFusion in 2005 and has grown it into the largest physician-patient community in the US connecting over 80 million patients to doctors, pharmacies, labs, and imaging centers. Additionally, to provide a glimpse into the leading edge of healthtech, there will be short presentations by upcoming startups: CloudMedX, Utila, and Sinc." Drug-fuelled couplings Health care has accounted for well over 25% of the M&A deal flow this year... and Pharma has been a large part of this. The economist goes into some detail on the underlying reasons this week. This New Exhibition Is a Tour of the Human Body's 'Hidden Organ' I need to learn more about the hype behind the microbiome.... so here is a start. A piece from Mother Board on the Natural History Museum's exhibition on the subject. Enjoy! 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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