I started doing the Headspace meditation app last fall. One recent practice struck me as I was thinking about the journeys entrepreneurs take to start up a company - making some space between yourself and your thoughts and emotions. This mental distance has its place in [...]
Y Combinator (YC) is a well-known player in the startup incubator space, but mostly associated with tech. Although there have been companies in YC with a healthcare focus, many of the past have been information-technology or tools-based. Now, YC has jumped with both feet [...]
Say what you wanna say And let the words fall out Honestly I wanna see you be brave . . . Words from Sara Bareilles’s song “Brave.” In the early days of start-ups, particularly at the incubator stage, pitch presentations are a well-used form of [...]
Pretend you’re the bus driver. That’s how my dad would start the puzzle. Then he’d proceed: At the first stop, 8 people get on. At the 2nd stop, 2 passengers get off and 5 more get on. A the 3rd stop, 6 people get off [...]
“But we do it better” exclaimed Jan. “How is it possible that the Jackson lab can have a patent on this?” Jan was looking quite perturbed. She had been searching Google patents and had unintentionally come across a newly published application. It was related to [...]
