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Crowdfunding For Innovation And Sustainability
Kickstarter has just hit the UK, but there are now a host of crowdfunding startups that focus on business creation and innovation Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr
In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Startups – Medstartr And Indiegogo
I have been seeing more and more activity around the idea of using the crowds to fund various healthcare IT startup companies. This shouldn’t be that surprising to any of us given the success of websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo... Read More »
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Crowdfunding The Next Medical Cure
Creating a new medical device is not an inexpensive exercise. There are development costs, clinical trial expenses, and the lengthy process of getting a piece of new equipment approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Read More »
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Digital Health Sees Record Cash Flow
Record amounts of cash continue to pour into the digital health arena, with the mid year numbers seeing record highs for year-over-year growth, according to a new Rock Health report. The explosive growth in digital health funding, however, has some analysts uneasy over a potential bubble in the market...
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Five Healthcare Startups That Should Have Crowdfunding Pitches On MedStartr
Health startups are always looking for money so what better solution than a crowdfunding site that understands the complexity of the industry. Read More »
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Health Care Initiatives Thrive With The Help Of Crowdfunding
MedStartr is an emerging player in the crowdfunding healthcare revolution. When founder Alex Fair realized that the large crowdfunding sites did not permit healthcare projects, he created MedStartr to bring healthcare solutions out of the idea box and into the marketplace... Read More »
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Health Tech Hatch Brings Crowdfunding And Testing Together
A crowdfunding and beta-testing platform's creators hope to change the way health care products and apps go to market. Based in Iowa City, Health Tech Hatch combines testing and funding into one website, allowing developers to receive feedback from users before finalizing their product. Read More »
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Healthcare Crowdfunding Gets Hatched: Passion Is The Possibility Of Health Tech Hatch
Fund next year’s Post-it notes. You can. Through crowdfunding; which seems to have become one of the market’s hottest concepts... Read More »
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Kickstarter Doesn't Do Healthcare, MedStartr Seizes Opportunity
MedStartr is a new way to fund healthcare initiatives—think Kickstarter for doctors, patients, and what ails them. It's headed up by Mike Pence and Alex Fair, two guys of different backgrounds and expertise who've come together to share the same dream and passion for helping those in physical need. Read More »
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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research
Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media. Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers. To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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MedStartr Brings Dedicated Crowdfunding Platform To Digital Health
NYC-based MedStartr (@medstartr) has finally unveiled version 1.0 of their crowd funding platform for digital health and medicine projects, which are specifically ineligible for listing on Kickstarter. Read More »
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MedStartr Finally Brings Crowdfunding To Health Projects
...serial healthtech entrepreneur Alex Fair and founding Kickstarter product manager Mike Pence have set out to give health-focused entrepreneurs and projects a Kickstarter of their own. Medstartr, which launched in beta today, is a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for healthcare companies, providing startups with a vehicle to market their wares, generate awareness and raise capital — direct from strangers, investors, and Doogie Howsers alike...
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MedStartr Offers Crowdfunding For Health IT Firms, Including Itself
Kickstarter has collected $250 million for 24,000 projects since it was founded three years ago, but virtually none of that has gone to health-related companies. “I said, ‘Hey, there’s an opportunity here,’” Fair says. “No one’s really doing health care crowdfunding.”
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MedStartr Thinks Crowdfunding Will Work For Med-Tech
Crowdfunding—the new, hip way to raise money for early-stage technologies and interesting projects—has found a happy home in the world of high-tech, where many people are eager to experiment with new models and new approaches. Read More »
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