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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.

May 21, 20202 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...

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Top Ten Reasons to Enter a MedStartr Crowd Challenge

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May 18, 20203 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...

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Apr 2, 20183 min

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

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

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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Healthcare Innovation Rule # 6: Get Buzz(ed)

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Dec 6, 20152 min

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. Once people are...

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Healthcare Innovation Rule # 9: Do One Thing Well

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Nov 23, 20152 min

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

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

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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GET PUMPED! AHA Chicago is running an Innovation Challenge

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Aug 6, 20141 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...

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Aug 2, 20142 min

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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Submission Deadline Extended for AHA Challenge

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Jan 8, 20142 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...

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Icarus, Daedalus, or Somewhere in Between

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Nov 26, 20133 min

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

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

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

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

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 9, 20131 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...

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Using Health as a Platform of Peace in the Heart of Darkness

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Jan 16, 20135 min

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

2012 Backer of The Year Award

Here is to Kim Whittemore, Strategic Genius, Patient Advocate, Leader, and our #1 Backer so far! You ROCK! Thank you Kim for supporting...

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