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At MVF, we live and breathe healthcare. And every now and then we feel the need to write about it as well! This is a collection of articles, blogs and news posts from our team, our advisors and our partners. Feel free to interact with us here or drop us a line on our social media accounts if something catches your fancy.

The War On COVID Crowd Challenge is On!

May 21, 2020
2 min

The War On COVID Crowd Challenge is On!

MedStartr’s 39th crowd challenge has just begun! This time our challenge is focused on COVID innovations, its been 3 months since the U.S. started lockdown and we have states coming out saying we could be in lockdown for 3 more months with the second wave of COVID cases on the horizon. We need visionaries to come in and share their solution to the public. We are all in this together, even if you don’t have a startup that doesn’t mean you can’t help. Support the startup that

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Top Ten Reasons to Enter a MedStartr Crowd Challenge

May 18, 2020
3 min

Top Ten Reasons to Enter a MedStartr Crowd Challenge

We designed the Crowd Challenges we have run since 2013 for the one goal (which a 2 person startup called Medable won) – helping startups succeed in healthcare. Now the world watches and pays attention to who wins because the companies that do – from Misfit wearables to Twiage to Alertgy (pictured above), winners of our contests have created billions of dollars in value. Now they employ thousands. If that alone does not convince you to fill out an application or check out the

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Dec 7, 2017
3 min

MedStartr Announces Winners of MedMo17 – its annual Healthcare Pitch Contest

New York City – December 7, 2017 – MedStartr, Inc. the healthcare-only crowdfunding and investment platform today announced the winners of MedMo17 Crowd Challenge held at MedStartr Momentum 2017, its annual two-day conference in New York. More than 100 different startups competed throughout the year for cash, investments and in-kind prizes totaling up to $2M, with Valisure, Alertgy, eCaring and Xycrobe taking the top honors in their respective categories. All the winners wil

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10 Rules for Driving Innovation in Healthcare – Rule # 7 – Pitch Listen Fix Pitch repeat

Dec 2, 2015
2 min

10 Rules for Driving Innovation in Healthcare – Rule # 7 – Pitch Listen Fix Pitch repeat

Rule # 7 – Pitch Listen Fix Pitch Repeat We recommend to all our acceleration clients to pitch early and pitch often. I don’t just mean at events like MedStartr Momentum but to everyone. I mean if you can sell your mother-in-law then you can sell anyone and make no mistake, sales are the wind that will take you across the sea of dead startups. Not sure who you are selling? That’s okay, due to the indirect nature of payments and perverse incentives in healthcare, your cus

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Healthcare Innovation Rule # 8: Passion is Not Enough

Nov 27, 2015
2 min

Healthcare Innovation Rule # 8: Passion is Not Enough

Today we continue our series on 10 Rules for driving health innovation faster with another post in the lead up to our CyberMonday MedStartr Momemtum event. We know many of you have great ideas and great passion to help improve healthcare but we are here to tell you… Rule # 8: Passion is Not Enough Healthcare attracts so many entrepreneurs fueled by a plethora of passion and sometimes little else. Don’t get us wrong, we all want to find a cure and save lives, but as any marrie

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Nov 17, 2015
2 min

10 Rules for Driving Innovation in Healthcare – Rule # 10 – Be in the right place

In preparation for our first full day event, MedStartr Momentum 2015 we are writing out our ten secrets to Healthcare Innovation Success. After helping hundreds of new ideas get to market faster, we have learned a few things about what works in driving innovation in our industry. We will release them one a day to make them more easily digestible. Enjoy! Rule # 10: Be in the right place Wayne Gretsky said that he wasn’t the fastest player or the best puck handler, but he alway

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1.7 Million for Cardio Startups

May 29, 2015
1 min

1.7 Million for Cardio Startups

The 2015 American Heart Association Crowd Challenge broke all records for the 16 companies that made the finals on MedStartr. In just 31 days the finalists closed 14 deals valued at over 1.7 million dollars with some of the biggest names in Healthcare. Just like last year’s winners, almost all the companies were pre-revenue when the challenge started but they aren’t anymore! Congratulations to first place winner Intelliquit who squeaked by Moving Analytics but mere hundredths

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Badass Billionaire Addict

Oct 31, 2014
3 min

Badass Billionaire Addict

But if that was the only lesson to take away from the Walter White character, I probably wouldn’t be writing about him today. Indeed, I want all to be warned of the danger of the startup life and DO NOT step off that cliff unless you are prepared to risk everything you have. I repeat, DO NOT. Don’t quit your day job and make sure you set and keep yourself to definite limits of time and expenditure until you have a model, method, or the money that is proven and in the bank.

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GET PUMPED! AHA Chicago is running an Innovation Challenge

Aug 6, 2014
1 min

GET PUMPED! AHA Chicago is running an Innovation Challenge

We helped the New York Chapter run a similar Challenge this Spring and the results were fantastic, especially for the startups. Like this one, the prizes totaled $25,000 but the finalists raised twice that much in the Crowdfunding Contest. Yes, that’s right, to win you need to also succeed in getting patients, doctors, and even hospital leaders involved in your idea. Sounds impossible? Not on MedStartr. The winners of the first AHA Open Innovation challenge got over 28 H

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Submission Deadline Extended for AHA Challenge

Jan 8, 2014
2 min

Submission Deadline Extended for AHA Challenge

Thank you for the overwhelming positive response to the first ever New York City American Heart Association Open Innovation Challenge! An amazing group of ideas have been crowdsourced on MedStartr already, but a number of you had problems with your submissions due to cancelled flights, work and city closures, and Internet connectivity issues. We appreciate that yesterday was the coldest day in 118 years in New York City and the problems it caused for many of you: our entrepre

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Jan 2, 2014
1 min

Making the Rock Health Year in Review

[slideshare id=29616276&doc=rockhealthrockreport2013yearinreview-140101180712-phpapp02] We are proud and happy to make it into the year in review here on page 14. The real story is in what happens after our clients get massive exposure on MedStartr. Over 25 million dollars and 100+ partnerships, thousands of new customers and getting paid to do that while news stories get written. It doesn’t happen to every project, but it is pretty common. We are honored and humbled to be

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How to Reach Millions: The Crowds Care Challenge Case Study

Aug 25, 2013
3 min

How to Reach Millions: The Crowds Care Challenge Case Study

Here at MedStartr we have learned many things and love to share them as part of our MedStartr School with our clients and innovators everywhere. One of the greatest techniques we have developed is our Activation | Awareness | Engagement methodology that we coach all our Startups and Corporate clients in. Once you engage with the crowd of patients, providers, partners, and institutions that care deeply about a problem in healthcare, whether it is searching for a cure or just

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Jun 14, 2013
8 min

We need your help to reach 14 million Cancer Survivors

To make the best new apps for cancer care, we want to get feedback and insight from patients and doctors who want to give or get better cancer care. Makes sense right? Ask your customers what ideas and features they like best and you will get a better product. But how do we connect innovators to the crowd that care most about their creations? We have found that a crowdfunding project is a very effective way to get opinions, feedback, adoption, and awareness for a new idea

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Crowds Cure Terrorism?

Apr 20, 2013
4 min

Crowds Cure Terrorism?

I am perpetually amazed by the power of crowds. In light of how the Boston Marathon Bombing played out, powered by mobile and private videography, reddit crowd-based analysis, and a man checking his backyard – all well coordinated by federal, state, and local experts, one can’t help but be inspired. Can Crowds Really Cure Terrorism? I know it is infinite hubris to even think this, especially living in New York and having watched a plane crash into WTC Tower # 2 from a rooftop

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Video Interview of Alex Fair

Apr 9, 2013
1 min

Video Interview of Alex Fair

Tim Cook of Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modelling (MLHIM.org) interviewed Alex Fair in April, 2013. Tim pioneered the MLHIM concept, which is an approach to creating portable concept definitions based on XML Schema in order to facilitate semantic interoperability across the healthcare domain. He also is a pretty good interviewer. Great questions. He also had great audience support and questions from Scott Scowcroft (@sm4hc on twitter) who also stars in this video a

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Jan 21, 2013
2 min

Top Ten Things Every Crowdfunder MUST DO

CrowdCamp is Open Crowdfunding is not only about you and your needs, crowdfunding is about the crowd and connecting to them. It is about engaging the people who have similar needs or who understand your needs, your crowd. To do this, you need to enlighten people about your project, engage them in conversation, and make them feel emotionally connected. To help activated patients, entrepreneurial doctors, and invetors of all types, we offer Crowdfunding Optimization services, b

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Jan 2, 2013
3 min

Why Are Patients and Social Media Especially Important In Healthcare?

(A guest post by Denise Silber & Michael Seres, editing by Komal Garewal & Courtney Berkholtz) Social Media is contributing to the improvement of care in ways that were previously unexplored, by bringing together the numerous and geographically diverse stakeholders involved in healthcare. Social Media is bringing patients with similar issues together for mutual support. Social Media is giving patients a voice to help change healthcare policy. Social Media is giving patients n

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No Slackers Among the Backers

Sep 21, 2012
2 min

No Slackers Among the Backers

Regina Holliday’s Walking Gallery MedStartr Project where she raised $10,948 from 90 Amazing men and women. We are honored and humbled by you. Thank you for supporting our good friend and inspiration, Regina. If takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a global innovation community to raise the level of healthcare innovation. We are proud and happy to enable this and give people a place to find and fund the change that they believe in. Backers of the Walking Gallery

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