Springstage Highlights
June 30, 2009
To give you a taste of what’s going on across the country on the startup scene, here’s just a few highlights from the Springstage startup blog network. To browse other posts of the more than 25 startup blogs that are part of the network, click here.
San Antonio Startup Blog: Finding a Wilderness and Making it Flourish
Highlight: “Ed found a desolate wilderness and made it flourish,” Orna says.Ed tells the story in his just-published autobiography, “Milk and Honey and High-Tech”. His influence can be split into two parts: his spell from 1979-1992 as the first Executive Director of the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research & Development (BIRD) Foundation, which provides funding for joint projects carried out by US and Israeli companies, and his activities since 1993 as a venture capitalist after he established Gemini.
In his book, Ed holds the reader with entertaining anecdotes involving high-powered executives, world-class scientists and one of Hollywood’s greatest actors; along the way he provides valuable insights into how to conduct business relationships and close deals.
Kentucky Startup Blog: Company profile: Starborn Solutions
Highlight: Starborn Solutions is a startup founded by Randy Lynn. Randy is an IBM guy who has built an impressive team and is taking on the challenge of e-medical records for the home health industry. Randy spoke to me about his startup.
What is your company’s 30 second elevator pitch?
An average per day cost for a hospital stay is above $5,000. An average per visit cost for a home health visit is about $130. Whether it is privately or federally funded, home health will remain and will likely grow as a priority contributor to the complete health care team.
Texas Startup Blog: Is your VC well Connected?
Highlight: Two years ago Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist and Yang Lu wrote a paper called “Whom you know matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance.“ This may seem obvious, but their research is very interesting. Erick Schonfeld’s piece today titled, “The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalist” explores the paper’s findings.
Detroit Startup Blog: Ignite Ann Arbor
Highlight: If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Colorado Startup Blog: Startup2Startup is Tuesday - don’t miss it
Highlight: I’m really excited that Dave McClure is bringing the popular Silicon Valley event “Startup2Startup” to Boulder this Tuesday night. I’m moderating a discussion called the “Ultimate Platform Hotness Smackdown: iPhone, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and the native web”. We’ll be comparing and contrasting these platforms and others, for the relative benefit and interest from the startup perspective on a variety of platform topics (features, distribution, monetization, etc).
