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#74: Building Billion Dollar Businesses – DLA, GE, Arsenal, Cambia & Caremerge

April 26, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedCost to Zero, Katya Hancock, Longevity, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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At the StartUp Health Festival, panelists Ruchita Sinha of GE Ventures, Casey Silver of Arsenal Venture Partners, Matt Karls of Cambia Health Solutions, and Asif Khan of Caremerge, join host Jay Sullivan of DLA Piper to discuss the capital raising process and the challenges and benefits of bringing in diverse investors to create a billion dollar business.

PANELISTS: Ruchita Sinha, GE Ventures, Casey Silver, Arsenal Venture Partners, Matt Karls, Cambia Health Solutions, Asif Khan, Caremerge
HOST: Jay Sullivan, DLA Piper
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bringing Different Investors to the Same Table
Advice to the Entrepreneur: How to Differentiate Yourself From the Crowd
Balancing the Fundraising Cycle With Running the Business

#73: Transforming an Industry – Esther Dyson, Jerry Levin & Steven Krein

April 20, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, StartUp Health Festival, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Chairman of StartUp Health, Jerry Levin, and angel investor Esther Dyson engage in an important conversation about the transformation of healthcare and what it takes to foster an ecosystem of health innovation.

GUEST: Esther Dyson, The Way to Wellville and Jerry Levin
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
StartUp Health & Jerry Levin: The Ideal Match
Esther, and Fostering the Transformation of Healthcare
Jerry, on the Transformation of an Industry

Key takeaways from this episode of StartUp Health NOW can be found at: http://bit.ly/1XwkNr0

StartUp Health NOW!: Analyzing Social Media to Improve Your Marketing – Paul Dyer, W2O Group

April 15, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedStartUp Health Insights, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Paul Dyer, President of Analytics and Insights of W2O Group, discusses using social data in effective marketing communications and the advantages of using insights + analytics in the early stages of business development.

GUEST: Paul Dyer, W2O Group
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: WCG Offices – New York, NY

IN THIS EPISODE:
Using Data and Insights and Analytics to Improve Your Marketing Strategy
Insights and Analytics As an Early Stage Business Development Tool
Using Social Data As a Market Strategy: 15 Minute Hack for Entrepreneurs

#72: The Power to Extend Life – Craig Venter, PhD, & Sue Siegel

April 13, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedLongevity, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures, sits down with J. Craig Venter, PhD, one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, at the StartUp Health Festival to chat about the power of our “software of life,” the human genetic code.

Key takeaways from this episode of StartUp Health NOW can be found at: http://bit.ly/1SAoSWM

GUEST: J. Craig Venter, PhD, Human Longevity, Inc.
HOST: Sue Siegel, GE Ventures
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
A Synopsis of Craig Venter + Human Longevity, Inc.
Genotypes and Phenotypes
Amassing the Data: A Digital Challenge

#70: More Disruption Please – Jonathan Bush, athenahealth, + Stephanie Lee, BuzzFeed

March 29, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedKatya Hancock, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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Jonathan Bush, athenahealth, and Stephanie Lee of BuzzFeed sit down at the StartUp Health Festival to dig into such topics as how to tell when your startup needs to pivot or go public, the biggest changes Jonathan sees in the digital health industry, and athena’s More Disruption Please Innovation Challenge.
GUEST: Jonathan Bush, athenahealth
HOST: Stephanie Lee, BuzzFeed News
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Making the Move From Plan A to Plan B
Acquiring Products Instead of Building Them
More Disruption Please

#69: Balancing Moonshots With Pragmatism – Bob Kocher, MD and Thomas Goetz

March 23, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedStartUp Health Festival, Unity StoakesStartUp Health NOW

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Bob Kocher, MD, partner at Venrock, sits down with entrepreneur and author Thomas Goetz at the StartUp Health Festival for a lively banter about the changing healthcare landscape and “making healthcare suck less.”

GUEST: Bob Kocher, MD, Venrock
HOST: Thomas Goetz, Iodine
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
The Changing Healthcare Landscape
Investment Strategy
Balancing the Realities of the Healthcare System With the Demands of 10X Returns on Investment

#68: Investing in Healthcare Moonshots – Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

March 16, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedStartUp Health Festival, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur, investor, technologist and founder of Khosla Ventures, talks about how he is breaking the mold for venture capital investing, what makes an entrepreneur successful, harnessing the network effect and the power behind storytelling.

GUEST: Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
Breaking the Mold for Venture Capital Investing
What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur
The Power of Storytelling

#71: Meg Fitzgerald, Cardinal Health, + Matt McAskin, Evercore Partners

March 13, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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Meghan Fitzgerald, EVP at Cardinal Health, and Matthew McAskin, Senior Managing Director at Evercore Partners, sit down at the StartUp Health Festival to discuss the importance of large organizations working with small startups, the challenges of investing in diverse areas, the globalization of healthcare and Cardinal Health’s new innovation lab, Fuse.

Key takeaways from this episode of StartUp Health NOW can be found at: http://bit.ly/1UQtwqy

GUEST: Meghan FitzGerald, Cardinal Health
HOST: Matthew McAskin, Evercore
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
The Changing Landscape in Healthcare
The Challenges of Diverse Investing in a Large Organization
Betting on the Future in a Value-Based Care Environment

#67: The Evolution of an Entrepreneur – Jean Anne Booth, UnaliWear

March 9, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedLongevity, Steven KreinStartUp Health NOW

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Serial entrepreneur Jean Anne Booth explains why she founded UnaliWear and the difference in building this company versus her other companies. She also chats about the evolution of her entrepreneurial career and the value she sees in focus groups.

GUEST: Jean Anne Booth, UnaliWear
HOST: Steven Krein, StartUp Health
LOCATION: Cleveland Clinic 2015 Medical Innovations Summit, Cleveland, OH

IN THIS EPISODE:
Becoming an Entrepreneur
Founding UnaliWear + Building UnaliWear
The Value of Focus Groups

#66: Moonshots in Healthcare: The End of Cancer As We Know It – Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantWorks

March 2, 2016Business, Health, Innovation, Startups, UncategorizedCure Disease, End Cancer, Howard Krein, StartUp Health FestivalStartUp Health NOW

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Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, surgeon, medical researcher, businessman, philanthropist and professor, sits down with StartUp Health CMO, Dr. Howard Krein, to discuss his ambitious undertakings in reforming cancer treatments through immunotherapy, whole genome sequencing and the new cancer initiative, “Cancer Moonshot 2020.”

GUEST: Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, NantWorks
HOST: Howard Krein, MD, StartUp Health
LOCATION: StartUp Health Festival, San Francisco, CA

IN THIS EPISODE:
A First in Our Nation: Whole Genome Sequencing
The Coalition of the Cancer Moonshot 2020
Using Relationships, Bringing People Together for a Common Good