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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.
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May 21, 20202 min read
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...
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May 18, 20203 min read
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...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read
NOLAHI Challenge Winners Announced
We are pleased to report that out of over 140 teams that applied to win our New Orleans Health Innovators Crowd Challenge, sponsored by...
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Dec 7, 20173 min read
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...
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Nov 24, 20161 min read
What is #TrumpCare?
We all have concerns about what the new administration will do to our healthcare system which has been changing so rapidly for the last...
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Dec 6, 20152 min read
Healthcare Innovation Rule # 6: Get Buzz(ed)
Little propels a startup like great buzz and one of the four things we think crowdfunding and events drive is awareness. Â Once people are...
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Nov 23, 20152 min read
Healthcare Innovation Rule # 9: Do One Thing Well
In preparation for our first full day event, Momentum 2015 we are writing out our ten secrets to Healthcare Innovation Success. To...
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Nov 17, 20152 min read
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....
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Oct 31, 20143 min read
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...
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Aug 6, 20141 min read
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. Â Like...
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Aug 2, 20142 min read
A Cure for Adoption Deficiency Syndrome
Once contracted, ADS can spread to a medical community at large and is highly virulent and can kill millions.  In a notable case from the...
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Jan 8, 20142 min read
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...
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Nov 26, 20133 min read
Icarus, Daedalus, or Somewhere in Between
Icarus and Daedalus by Charles Paul Landon, 1799 I have long noted the difference between technically adept Fathers and Sons. We seem to...
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Oct 15, 20131 min read
Geek2Freak2Hero – Funding the Healthcare Revolution at MedicineX 2013
We just want to say a big thank you to Dr. Larry Chu and the whole MedicineX team at Stanford. Here is the talk I gave on stage in a...
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Jul 14, 20132 min read
Do I Really Need a Business Plan?
Matchpoint East New York with my friends Unity Stoakes from Startup health and Brad Weinberg from Blueprint Health when Unity noted that...
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Jun 14, 20138 min read
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...
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May 21, 20135 min read
How to Make Innovation Go Faster
What is your cost per Innovation? There are many ways to drive innovation faster and better. I talked about this at HIMSS this year and...
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Apr 8, 20131 min read
Video Interview of Alex Fair
Tim Cook of Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modelling (MLHIM.org) interviewed Alex Fair in April, 2013. Â Tim pioneered the MLHIM...
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Jan 16, 20135 min read
Using Health as a Platform of Peace in the Heart of Darkness
— By Dominique Vidale-Plaza, founder of Build Hope, & blogger of development, healthcare, and despair in the the Democratic Republic of...
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Nov 13, 20121 min read
2012 Backer of The Year Award
Here is to Kim Whittemore, Strategic Genius, Patient Advocate, Leader, and our #1 Backer so far! Â You ROCK! Â Thank you Kim for supporting...
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