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A Masterclass with the Founder of One of the Great Success Stories in Health Innovation

June 14, 2024Business, Health, Innovation, Startupsbusiness, diabetes, Digital Health, health innovation, Health Moonshot, health startups, Health Tech, Health Transformer, Innovation, Logan Plaster, Sami Inkinen, Type 2 Diabetes, Virta, Virta HealthNicole Kinsey

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Virta Health is one of the greatest success stories in health tech today.

Join us for an insightful StartUp Health NOW episode featuring Sami Inkinen, the visionary CEO & Founder of Virta Health, a pioneering company focused on the reversal of Type 2 diabetes. In this Masterclass, originally recorded in front of a virtual audience of entrepreneurs in the StartUp Health community, Inkinen – also a member of the community – shares his journey and the innovative strategies behind Virta Health’s success.

Inkinen’s impressive background includes co-founding Trulia, leading it to a successful IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. At Virta Health, he’s raised $366M and achieved a $2B valuation, with the company recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company in 2023. Beyond his business acumen, Sami is a world-class athlete and health advocate, known for his rowing expedition to raise awareness about diabetes.

In this episode, Inkinen delves into:

The biggest surprises he faced as a health tech founder
Balancing his roles as CEO, father, and husband
The strategic planning rhythms that drive Virta’s mission
His personal journey, from existential crises to global health impact

As is typical of members of the StartUp Health community, Inkinen is generous in sharing his wisdom. Tune in to learn from his experience and gain valuable insights into leadership and achieving sustainable product-market fit in the digital health industry.

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StartUp Health Masterclass with Lee Shapiro: How Founders Should Navigate Fundraising in 2024

March 28, 2024Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups7Wire Ventures, 7wireVentures, Funding, Health Mindsets, health startups, HealthTech Investor, investing, investments, investor, Lee Shapiro, Masterclass, mindset, Mindsets, Moonshot Mindset, StartUp Health, startups, WisdomNicole Kinsey

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On today’s StartUp Health NOW episode we’re bringing you an excerpt from a recent StartUp Health Masterclass featuring Lee Shapiro, the managing partner at 7wireVentures.

Very few people, if any, have the experience and market understanding that Lee Shapiro has. As we’ll get into in the conversation, he’s been an investor as well as an operator, guiding Allscripts and then Livongo. More than that industry expertise, however, we appreciate Lee’s ability to put work and life in perspective. He’s become a real sage, and in this Masterclass he shares wisdom on how to thrive and grow even when the markets are constrained.

The Masterclass was held in front of a live virtual audience of around 40 founders from the StartUp Health community. Towards the end of the class we opened up the line for questions, so you’ll get to hear Lee’s practical feedback to founders working in the trenches.

This session was so rich with insights and takeaways that we turned it into a video and a blog post as well. The video breaks down Lee’s 21 top insights from the session, so if you want to skim through those, head over to StartUp Health TV on YouTube.

Enjoy the Masterclass.

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Scaling Your Health Tech Business to $100 Million, Featuring Sofia Guerra of Bessemer Venture Partners

July 21, 2023Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, StartupsBessemer Venture Partners, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Funding, Health Startup, health startups, investor, Investors, Jamey Edwards, Logan Plaster, Sofia Guerra, StartUp Health, startups, WisdomNicole Kinsey

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On our episode today we are getting down into the details, deep the weeds, in order to understand what it takes to scale a healthcare business to $100M.

For that wisdom we turned to Sofia Guerra, an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners. We recently had her on our Health Transformer University Masterclass series to share top takeaways from a recent benchmarks report published by her firm. She distilled their very detailed work into five key takeaways and then hung around to answer questions from our audience of StartUp Health founders.

In this session, which was hosted by Jamey Edwards, Chief Platform Officer here at StartUp Health, Sofia gets into all the critical operational, financial, and clinical performance metrics that health tech companies need to care about if they’re going to thrive and scale.

For the purpose of this podcast, we’ll drop right into the middle of the conversation between Jamey and Sofia, focusing on her advice for founders.

Enjoy!

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Maximizing Your Impact: Building and Leading a Strategic Board

June 30, 2023Business, Health, Innovation, StartupsEntrepreneur, entrepreneurship, health startups, Logan Plaster, Matt Blumberg, WisdomNicole Kinsey

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Our guest this week is Matt Blumberg, CEO and Co-founder at Bolster. He’s the author of the books “Startup CEO,” “Startup CXO,” and most recently “Startup Boards.”

That last one was why we wanted to have him in for a special masterclass with the founders from the StartUp Health community. As you’ll hear, Blumberg has developed a detailed strategy for maximizing your startup’s board. It’s a time-tested framework for making sure your board is an asset to your business not a tax.

Drawing on his own experiences as a CEO and board member, Matt discusses the importance of diversity in leadership and decision-making and provides practical tips and strategies for building a board that represents the full range of perspectives and experiences of your stakeholders. As a startup leader looking to build or scale your board, this chat will provide valuable insights and actionable advice to help you grow.

This conversation was held in front of a live audience of entrepreneurs, so you’ll get to hear some very practical questions on board management during our Q&A.

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How to Become a More Conscious Leader With Diana Chapman

October 5, 2021UncategorizedDiana Chapman, Entrepreneur, Health Moonshot, health startups, India Edwards, startups, Steve Krein, Steven Krein, successStartUp Health NOW

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Today we’re talking about conscious leadership. What is conscious leadership? It has to do with the process of positive change within your team or organization. Now, you may wonder how do you do that and why it’s so important when investing in innovative health startups. That’s precisely what we learn today from our guest, Diana Chapman, the author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success. The pages in her book contain a comprehensive road map to guide you to shift from fear-based to trust-based leadership. And once you learn and start practicing conscious leadership you’ll get results in the form of more energy, clarity, focus and healthier relationships. This interactive workshop was hosted by StartUp Health’s CEO & Co-founder Steven Krein, in front of a live audience of founders from the StartUp Health portfolio.

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