Boston VCs HLM and Bessemer Venture Partners visiting the NYC Blueprint Health offices to talk with the teams about what they’re excited about in healthtech. Today is also the 4 week “early” check in dinner at Blueprint Health - so we look forward to hosting a bunch more mentors this evening to see the progress the teams have made due to a lot of hard work!
To your health,
BPH Team
Here’s a pic from our inaugural class launch event last Thursday 1/12 at our offices in SoHo. Here’s a pic of Brad (left of the ppt screen) & Mathew (right) opening up the event! More pics (and news) to come. Thanks to all of the mentors, LPs, and entire BPH community for the tremendous showing (~100 people in total). The teams are already hard at work and look forward to many more interactions with the BPH community going forward.
To your health,
BPH Team
Nice post from BPH mentor Puneet Sapra… there’s a lot of discrete diagnoses and procedures out there, not to mention hundreds of medical specialties and sub-specialties. Here’s to more holistic and patient centered care going forward, and less fragmentation.
To your health,
BPH Team
Great post by TechStars founder & CEO David Cohen yesterday. We’re proud and privileged to be part of the TechStars network. And we’re excited for January 2012 for the launch of our first class starting Jan 9 in NYC!
Stay tuned for more details!
Happy (and safe) holidays and to your health,
BPH Team
Here’s a photo from our panel session during our mixer event this past Wednesday. Thanks to Charles for moderating the panel (far left at the top), and thanks also to our great panelists - (from top down on the left), Andy, Reece, Mubeen, Jon and Steve. It was a great turnout by BPH mentors and a few of our first batch of teams… there is a lot to do over the next few weeks, but we’re excited to kick things off officially starting January 9, 2012!
To your health,
BPH
Hi all! Having spent the past months reviewing the many great ideas and teams that submitted applications for our first January 2012 class (in addition to attending conferences up and down the East Coast, most recently mHealth with the Startup Health team), we are about ready to announce the first Blueprint Health batch of startups! This Wednesday 12/14 evening in NYC we will have a mixer for our mentors and some startup teams that have been accepted in the first program batch. We have some guests who have graciously agreed to come participate in our event to help share experience and insight into startup accelerators in NYC for our BPH mentor community and the BPH startup teams, including:
TechStar mentors
Andy Weissman - Union Square Ventures
Steve Schlafman - Lerer Ventures
Steve Cheney - GroupMe
Jon Steinberg - Buzzfeed
Founders
Lee Hoffman - Veri (TechStars)
Reece Pacheco - Shelby.tv (TechStars)
Mubeen Malik - 1DocWay (DreamIt)
Bharani Rajakumar - LearnBop (DreamIt)
Many thanks to our friends at Tipping Point Partners for agreeing to host our event in their lovely office spaces - we share similar passions in terms of fostering an innovation ecosystem in New York. Any questions, ping us!
Stay tuned for more news on the 1st Blueprint Health class!
To your health,
BPH Team
Great, succinct piece from a Harvard Kennedy School fellow posted to CNN this past weekend on immigration reform for the US and the impact on jobs. It’s clear reform is needed, despite what popular media think about other countries “stealing our jobs”:
To your (and our nation’s job) health,
BPH Team
Nice post from BPH mentor Charles Huang around 3 key considerations for fundraising and relationships: you, idea, and time.
To your health,
BPH Team
Good post from Blueprint Health mentor/adviser Charles Huang around things to think about when considering startup accelerators. A good read for entrepreneurs and startup teams.
Lots of applications (almost 300!) to our first program, and we are busy reviewing lots of great teams and proposals!
To your health,
BPH Team
An interesting takeaway from from Edelman’s Health Baromater 2011 report (which can be downloaded here), as presented at this past Tuesday’s Startup Health roundtable. Forget financial incentives and cash - your social network has more of an impact on health behavior!
Food for thought.
To your health,
BPH Team
