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How to Build a Healthcare Startup

Up and Running

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. Hiring an in-house legal counsel or consulting with an experienced law firm specializing in healthcare law is probably the best solution.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s one of the first people many execs in town call when they are looking for a key technical hire. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Thanks to organizations like DIU we’ve gotten much better at tech scouting; finding promising technologies that might have a military application, getting them on that initial contract – on a SBIR contract or an OTA prototyping contract. Here are the best practices in terms of how to approach the hiring process.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. Much like the NIH SBIR program.)

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