Saturday night I won the Technology category of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2017 Pacific Awards ceremony held in Vancouver BC. I’m sharing my acceptance speech video with our blog readers who are entrepreneurs or about to embark on the journey. To me, the award is a team award for what we’ve achieved together because StarFish and ViVitro are […]
Working for StarFish Medical is unique because of the culture and the nature of consulting relationships. We’re continually growing and hiring employees at all levels thanks to successful projects, innovative employees, and referrals from clients and colleagues. Applicants might wonder which types of people flourish in our environment and what successful employees have discovered after […]
A few years ago I started interviewing successful serial medical device entrepreneurs. Then I began assembling data from people I identified through Google or LinkedIn searches. It’s always fascinating to hear their stories and realize how they’ve improved or saved thousands of lives in many different ways. Typical of the entrepreneurs I speak with, Doug Evans […]
Joel Weinstein is the real deal—a true medical device serial entrepreneur. He’ll be presenting at Medical Device Playbook 2016 in Toronto on March 14. I had the pleasure of speaking with him about his experience creating Hologic and am pleased to share it with our readers. Here’s our conversation:
Statistics and some success stories Recently I gave a talk at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital on The State of Innovation in the Canadian Medical Device Industry. It’s a big topic and I approached it from two main angles. I evaluated the current crop of medtech startups relative to the previous ones, and I looked at patenting […]
Digging into the Q2 MoneyTree™ Report I spent some time recently digging into the Q2 Life Sciences MoneyTree report by PWC. I wondered how the Medical Device industry is faring these days for new venture capital investment. There are some interesting medical device funding trends for sure. Significant deals this quarter included Holaira ($42M Series D – […]
Curious about the checklist, video, and free consultation offers for your medical device concept that appear on our site? Here’s how an entrepreneurial company that is not a StarFish client uses our medical device process and materials to improve their business and medical device success. Medinovel, a medical innovation start-up, is using free tools from StarFish Medical’s website […]
May is a wonderful month– full of new beginnings, longer days, more opportunities to hike and kayak, and our future– new graduates. I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote address for the University of Victoria Engineering Students’ Society Industry Social Event in March. It gave me a chance to reflect on my days in […]
How Not to Get Led Down the Garden Path in Medical Device Development Have you ever been advised to start down a path and then have the route changed after it’s too late to back out? During a recently completed a house renovation I was reminded of what it can feel like to be the […]
Whether you are thinking about Annual Planning or Year End Closing, we’re in a time of reflection and resolve to improve. Over the years I’ve learned to choose a limited number of improvement efforts, apply management resources, then measure with them regularly for progress and impact. The costs of not focusing sufficiently in a few key areas can ruin a great […]
In April of this year Abbott announced a recall of their Freestyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Meter. As per their press release, when measuring very high glucose levels of more than 1024 mg/dL the machine reports incorrect (and much lower) values. Glucose levels that high, while rare, are dangerous. Abbott is one of the most professional […]
Are you expecting your engineers to cover both innovation and execution tasks? Are you in fact leaving a lot of potential success on the table? I used to believe that a single point of accountability from beginning to end of a project was ideal. My confidence was shaken however after seeing projects that either failed […]