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At MVF, we live and breathe healthcare. And every now and then we feel the need to write about it as well! This is a collection of articles, blogs and news posts from our team, our advisors and our partners. Feel free to interact with us here or drop us a line on our social media accounts if something catches your fancy.
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Eulogy for FairCareMD
If there is one lesson I have learned from the experience it is to never invest in an idea before you get a crowd willing to pay for the...
Alex Fair
Sep 2, 20142 min read
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GET PUMPED! AHA Chicago is running an Innovation Challenge
We helped the New York Chapter run a similar Challenge this Spring and the results were fantastic, especially for the startups. Like...
Alex Fair
Aug 6, 20141 min read
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Do you know your risk for Heart Disease?
How many of you have been affected by heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular complications? Do you know someone who has had a...
Alex Fair
Apr 16, 20141 min read
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Physicians DO Want Patients to Self Manage!
Matthew Curtis, patient and smoker says “When you smoke for several years, as I did, quitting is a fuzzy thing. You don’t just wake up...
Alex Fair
Feb 6, 20142 min read
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Submission Deadline Extended for AHA Challenge
Thank you for the overwhelming positive response to the first ever New York City American Heart Association Open Innovation Challenge! An...
Alex Fair
Jan 8, 20142 min read
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Making the Rock Health Year in Review
[slideshare id=29616276&doc=rockhealthrockreport2013yearinreview-140101180712-phpapp02] We are proud and happy to make it into the year...
Alex Fair
Jan 2, 20141 min read
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Geek2Freak2Hero – Funding the Healthcare Revolution at MedicineX 2013
We just want to say a big thank you to Dr. Larry Chu and the whole MedicineX team at Stanford. Here is the talk I gave on stage in a...
Alex Fair
Oct 15, 20131 min read
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Open Season for Funding Healthcare Startups
This is why we started MedStartr just after the JOBS act passed in the first place. The JOBS act puts in place several rules that make...
Alex Fair
Sep 27, 20132 min read
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Oooh, that feels sooo gooood! Get way in the back yeah yeah yeah, pant pant pant…
In a brand new category appropriately named “Pet Projects” we have decided to end the restriction on pet health innovations. We have had...
Alex Fair
Sep 22, 20131 min read
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We need your help to reach 14 million Cancer Survivors
To make the best new apps for cancer care, we want to get feedback and insight from patients and doctors who want to give or get better...
Alex Fair
Jun 14, 20138 min read
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Our First Alzheimer’s Project
Fast forward 20 years and he was at it again, but this time in the digital space. I called him up and we talked about his Pandora-like...
Alex Fair
May 4, 20132 min read
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Video Interview of Alex Fair
Tim Cook of Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modelling (MLHIM.org) interviewed Alex Fair in April, 2013. Tim pioneered the MLHIM...
Alex Fair
Apr 9, 20131 min read
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Preparing for Success
I am a scientist at heart. The scientific method and I have had a great relationship, so when a scientist like Louis Pasteur says:...
Alex Fair
Mar 23, 20132 min read
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The Big Finish: Top Ten Things You Should Do When Your Crowdfunding Campaign is Coming to a Close
A Big Finish to a campaign can add that last 70% of your funding, especially if you have already achieved significant traction. You now...
Alex Fair
Feb 23, 20132 min read
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Make That Killer Video
Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world? Or that projects with videos are more than twice as likely to...
Alex Fair
Feb 18, 20131 min read
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Top Ten Things Every Crowdfunder MUST DO
CrowdCamp is Open Crowdfunding is not only about you and your needs, crowdfunding is about the crowd and connecting to them. It is about...
Alex Fair
Jan 21, 20132 min read
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Using Health as a Platform of Peace in the Heart of Darkness
— By Dominique Vidale-Plaza, founder of Build Hope, & blogger of development, healthcare, and despair in the the Democratic Republic of...
Alex Fair
Jan 16, 20135 min read
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Where The “Crazies” Are
(A guest post by Pat Mastors & edited by Jessica Mastors & Komal Garewal) Entrepreneurs in general are known to share five “C” traits:...
Alex Fair
Nov 16, 20122 min read
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Crowdfunding Success Rate on MedStartr
The percentage of healthcare projects on MedStartr that are successful. With over a quarter million pageviews and $100,000 raised on the...
Alex Fair
Nov 11, 20121 min read
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MedStartr Showcases: Million Mothers and More
In October we ran our first Showcase. It went well and we will be doing this periodically. If you want to enable or sponsor a showcase,...
Alex Fair
Oct 20, 20123 min read
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