Health - Startup Digest - October 29th - November 4th

Health October 29, 2016 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. Quote of the Week "The problem is getting these exabytes of genetic data. Turns out you can't just walk up to people, millions of them, and say, "Your data, please." You must first persuade them that you'll only do good things with it and won't let it fall into the wrong hands. (We do like our privacy.) You must then convince the medical centers and genetic companies that collect this data that, rather than hoard it for their own profit, they should share it so the entire research community can attain the economies of scale—the critical mass of data, individual sets eventually numbering in the millions—that Schadt and many others believe is necessary to understand the causes of diseases and engineer new treatments and cures." - Lola Dupre, Wired Health Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Save £400 On TechCrunch Disrupt London Tickets! Come to TechCrunch Disrupt London on December 5-6 to meet the people and companies that can grow your networks in the post-Brexit landscape.  Save a total of £400 when you buy your Early Bird ticket with promo code TECHSTARS@EB. Prices go up to £1,200 on November 4th. Buy your tickets today! The Cure for Cancer Is Data—Mountains of Data Mark Warren - Wired A great piece in Wired on the promise (and limitations) of data for curing diseases. The headline is a bit misleading, and the article actually talks about how far we have to go before we can truly unlock the potential of big data as a curative. Definitely check it out! Obamacare Death Spiral? Jason Shafrin - Healthcare Economist Some interesting explanations for the massive spike in premiums predicted for exchanges this year from one of my favorite publications. If you've been curious as to what some explanations could be after seeing the news, I would check this out! Why the U.S. Still Trails Many Wealthy Nations in Access to Care Aaron Carroll - NYT While this piece by Carroll starts out by saying Obamacare has been a success (verdict is still out on that, especially given the new forecasts of premium hikes around 25%), he does go into some metrics on how the US is lagging other countries in terms of health care, and some impacts there. We obviously have a problem here, and the new "death spiral" for Obamacare may be a real issue. Another article in this weeks digest also addresses this. An Open Letter Healthcare.Gov: I Can't Afford To Be Sick Abby Norman - Medium As we hear about the rising costs of care, and increasing premiums, we can sometimes forget the human element behind the numbers. This is a heart breaking "open letter" discussing one women's battle with debt, insurance, and sickness in the United States. Remember operator billing? Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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3D Printing - Startup Digest - The $40K Godzilla - October 28th - November 4th

3D Printing October 28, 2016 What's up? It's been a gloomy couple of days here in San Diego. We don't have much to complain about, so we complain about silly things like rain, craft beer and Mexican food. The ultimate city of First World Problems. Anyway, hope you are well.  In today's digest, we will be covering: 1.) 3D Printing Violins (I also printed one a few months back) 2.) Simplify3D releasing multi-language support 3.) New Resin from Form Labs 4.) Some guy who spent $40k on Godzilla 5.) A couple of industry news stories 6.) A few Kickstarters That's about it. As always, if I missed something or if you have any questions/comments, simply hit reply. Thanks! :) Until next time, my friend, Dilanka 3D Printing Startup Digest is curated by: Dilanka - Growth @ AstroPrint Contact Dilanka at dilanka.wettewa@startupdigestmail.com Save £400 On TechCrunch Disrupt London Tickets! Come to TechCrunch Disrupt London on December 5-6 to meet the people and companies that can grow your networks in the post-Brexit landscape.  Save a total of £400 when you buy your Early Bird ticket with promo code TECHSTARS@EB. Prices go up to £1,200 on November 4th. Buy your tickets today! [DIY] - Kid 3D Prints Violin Dane Jarvis - YouTube.com A while back I mentioned the Hovalin -- which is a open source, 3D Printable violin. This is a case study of a 11-year old using 3D Printing to print a violin. Good story.  [NEWS] - Simplify3D Goes Global simplify3d - simplify3d.com Simplify3D, arguably the best slicing engines in the world of 3D Printing has gone global with multi-language support for their widely popular software.  [NEWS] - Formlabs releases new Engineering Resins formlabs - formlabs.com Fun to see a bunch of cool new resins from Form Labs. The prints look pretty awesome too.  [DIY] - $40K Godzilla Sakai - 3ders.com If you are ever in the mood for 3D Printing a godzilla statue for the price of a nice car, I figured I'll include this.  [NEWS] - Type A Machines Partners with Mosaic for Multi-Color 3D Printing General Fabb - Fabbaloo.com Type A Machines (a 3D Printer Manufacturer) and Mosaic Manufacturing (Who I've covered before) just made a deal to market the Mosaic Manufacturing system called 'The Palette' in the U.S to allow their users to print multicolored objects. [NEWS] - Bre Pettis's New Company Bre Pettis - bre.co Bre Pettis, the subject of the Netflix 3D Printing documentary called Print The Legend is back with a new company specializing in heirloom gifts. Many folks don't like Bre -- but, i'll let you make up your own mind. [NEWS] - 3D Printing in Space tethers - thethers.com It's not exactly standard 3D Printing/additive manufacturing, but this is a neat idea.  [KICKSTARTER] - Super Light and Easy to use Extruder for Your 3D Printer. Lykle Schepers - Kickstarter Here's another interesting Kickstarter (for existing 3D Printer owners). It's a injection molded direct drive extruder called the NIMBLE. It's allegedly supposed to make it easy to load filament.  [KICKSTARTER] - Ultrasonice Alignment Tool for your 3D Printer Javad R. Gatabi - kickstarter.com Not sure about the efficacy, but looks interesting.  Remember operator billing? Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - Weekly Reads - October 28th - November 4th

Startup Reading List October 28, 2016 Enjoy them while they're hot. Have a great weekend! 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 Save £400 On TechCrunch Disrupt London Tickets! Come to TechCrunch Disrupt London on December 5-6 to meet the people and companies that can grow your networks in the post-Brexit landscape.  Save a total of £400 when you buy your Early Bird ticket with promo code TECHSTARS@EB. Prices go up to £1,200 on November 4th. Buy your tickets today! Should I Pursue My Passion or Business? Ben Huh "I came here to build a new company. But after wandering the hipster cafes of SOMA for 31 days meeting amazing people, I failed to find something I love. While I dreamt up ideas for a company, my personal passion tugged at me. I ignored it because I judged it to be too risky. Too impossible to consider. Too ambitious to be sane. For someone who has told thousands of entrepreneurs to follow their passions, my denial felt hypocritical." The Five Types of Virality Josh Elman "The other key is to make sure your product is easy to describe. The words you use to describe your product — on your home page, in your press messaging, and in the product itself will be the foundation of how your users describe it." The Third Transportation Revolution John Zimmer "Next time you walk outside, pay really close attention to the space around you. Look at how much land is devoted to cars — and nothing else. How much space parked cars take up lining both sides of the street, and how much of our cities go unused covered by parking lots." 20 Million Visits A Month Ethan Smith "Here's what I've seen occurover and over: Founder starts a company. He's not an SEO expert, buthears that it's important. He asks around, and is told to launch 50 million pages." Remember operator billing? Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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Health - Startup Digest - October 21st - October 28th

Health October 21, 2016 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. Quote of the Week "Change is hard, in my view, because the fruit is harder to pick than we thought. The fruit is hard to pick in part because delivering health care is not much like making a car. Auto manufacturing involves highly standardized and intensively automated workflows. Changing how work gets done may require a lot of capital investment. Nevertheless, a numerically-controlled lathe will change what it does when you reprogram it. And you don't need to worry about the expectations of the steel that the lathe shapes. Medical work is much less standardized. No two patients are the same, biologically, psychologically, or in their social circumstances. Unlike steel, patients have agency that the care system should and must accommodate. All this makes caregiving a matter of craft skills, and care 'algorithms' are often more like suggestions. Above all, because they are craftsmen and craftswomen, and not robots, caregivers can be nudged, but they can't be programmed." - Bill Gardner Health Startup Digest is curated by: R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com Remember operator billing? Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. Why is improvement in the quality of health care so slow? Bill Gardner - Incidental Economist This is a great review of an article in JAMA regarding the lack of improvement in the quality of care between 2002 and now. Gardner's main point, which I find incredibly important, is that we expected quality in health care to improve similar as it has in other industries. Delivering health care to humans is, unfortunately, much more complicated than making a car. Read more above. Can CRISPR Save Ben Dupree? Antonio Regalado - MIT Tech Review A look at the practical implications of CRISPR, and how it may help one person fight their battle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A lot of they hype around CRISPR is obviously still years away, but this gives a good overview of the process' use for the disease, and more generally. My Report to the President Joe Biden - Medium Wondering where we are with Joe Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" - look no further. This report goes into details on Biden's plans, and results to date. IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money for It Steve Lohr - NYT An NYT piece on the progress that IBM is making with Watson. This is highly relevant as we think about the potential for AI in health care, and whether or not Watson can achieve its promise in the industry. Why We Shouldn't Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit 'Platforms' HIT Consultant A quick look at the potential for ResearchKit and CareKit to enact real change in digital health by giving researchers and innovators the tools to nudge us to be our best selves. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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3D Printing - Startup Digest - Do It Yourself - October 21st - October 28th

3D Printing October 21, 2016 Hey you. Did you watch the last presidential debate? Out of 300+ million people, we have a system that ultimately produced a megalomaniac clown and a career criminal as our presidential candidates.  Pure comedy. Sometimes I wonder if Mike Judge's Idiocracy was a movie or a documentary. But, I digress... Back to 3D Printing.. In this week's edition of the digest, we will be covering: 1.) A young girl helping to bring low cost prosthetics to the masses 2.) A prototype for a "factory in a box" 3.) The release of the new Ultimaker 3 4.) An Interesting product called the ColorPod 5.) How to use 3D Printing if you are an educator 6.) The smartphone 3D Printer  7.) ...some fun DIY projects That's about it. Hope you are doing well! Presuming I don't get hit by a school bus, I will see you next week.  :) Dilanka 3D Printing Startup Digest is curated by: Dilanka - Growth @ AstroPrint Contact Dilanka at dilanka.wettewa@startupdigestmail.com Remember operator billing? Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. [NEWS] - Girl who lost arms to crippling meningitis helps develop prosthetic limbs Oliver Mline - chroniclelive.co.uk Last week, we mentioned Open Bionics - a company developing cheap bionic prosthetic limbs with the aid of 3D Printing. This is a story of a young girl (Tilly) who is helping with the process of developing these prosthetic limbs so that they are effective and comfortable for others like her. Quite cool. :) [DIY] - Maker Starter Kit WASP - wasproject.it During Maker Faire Rome, a company offered something they call the "Maker Starter Kit". It's a container that has a giant 12m 3D Printer. The goal is for someone to be able to create a small self producing village with just the contents of the starter kit. Which means, you could theoretically 3D Print a small enclosure for housing and other necessities. A bunch of inventors even 3D Printed a house for less than $100: http://www.goodnet.org/articles/these-inventors-just-3dprinted-house-for-less-than-100 -- it ain't pretty, but should still have great applications for charities. [NEWS] - Ultimaker 3 Released Ultimaker - ultimaker.com The much anticipated Ultimaker 3 was released this week. The website itself is a bit slow, but the printer looks pretty damn sexy. It goes for about $3300. [PRODUCT] - ColorPod Color Pod - colorpod.com I don't fully understand what this is all about, but it looks like an add on modification that converts your existing 3D Printer into a powder based printer. Allegedly, it also allows you to print edible stuff X_x [EDUCATION] - How to use 3D Printing as a Teaching Tool Formlabs - formlabs.com If you are an educator, this is for you. A lot of folks ask me how they could incorporate 3D Printing into their lesson plans. This is a good guide that will help you get on the right track. Also relevant if you are a parent wanting to teach your child about 3D Printing. [PRODUCT] - ONO: The Smartphone Based 3D Printer ono3d - ono3d.net Sleek looking product. Not sure about the efficacy, but it's definitely well designed. Essentially, you are able to 3D Print stuff directly from your smartphone. This product has not yet been released though.  If you aren't in the loop, these guys ran a very successful Kickstarter a while back: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olo3d/olo-the-first-ever-smartphone-3d-printer/description [DIY] - UV Retractable Sunglasses Andre - 3ders.org A fun DIY Project. This redditor built a arduino powered UV Triggered retractable set of sunglasses with the help of 3D Printing. In short: Based on sunlight the sunglasses either retract or not. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20161020-redditor-3d-prints-incredibly-cool-arduino-powered-uv-trigger...  [DIY] - A walking robotic table Josh Mings - solidsmack.com This is for the advanced DIY'er. It's a robotic, walking table that maintains stability. This means that you could theoretically put a full wine glass on top of it while it's moving without the risk of a spill. 3D Printing the parts is probably the easiest part of the entire project. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource 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, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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