Blueprint Health

Boston VCs HLM and Bessemer Venture Partners visiting the NYC...

charleshuang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:46:50 -0500

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...

charleshuang — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:20:00 -0500

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

Complexity in the delivery of healthcare

charleshuang — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:01:13 -0500

Complexity in the delivery of healthcare:

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

Has transparency finally come for all startup accelerators?

charleshuang — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:43:00 -0500

Has transparency finally come for all startup accelerators?:

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...

charleshuang — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:34:11 -0500

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

Blueprint Health Mixer Event - Wed 12/14 in NYC

charleshuang — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:00:58 -0500

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

Want jobs? Encourage immigration!

charleshuang — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:16:00 -0500

Want jobs? Encourage immigration!:

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”:

40% of the Fortune 500 were started by immigrants or their children
25% of high tech startups created between 1995 - 2005 had at least 1 immigrant founder

To your (and our nation’s job) health,

BPH Team

Parallels between fundraising and relationships

charleshuang — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:36:00 -0500

Parallels between fundraising and relationships:

Nice post from BPH mentor Charles Huang around 3 key considerations for fundraising and relationships: you, idea, and time.

To your health,

BPH Team

Things to think about when considering accelerators...

charleshuang — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:07:00 -0500

Things to think about when considering accelerators...:

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...

charleshuang — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:12:42 -0500

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

This photo is from the Startup Health NYC Roundtable, held this...

charleshuang — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:43:00 -0500

This photo is from the Startup Health NYC Roundtable, held this past Tuesday in New York at the beautiful Edelman offices. Steven Krein presented the goals of Startup Health, which are succinctly summarized in this 1 single slide. Blueprint Health is excited to partner with Startup Health to help advance health and technology innovation and entrepreneurship in America!

To your health,

BPH Team

Startup Videos (via Startup Digest)

charleshuang — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:52:00 -0500

Startup Videos (via Startup Digest):

Startup Digest is a great resource for entrepreneurs, and one of the good tools they have can be found here - a series of videos featuring investors and entrepreneurs discussing a range of things: what entrepreneurship is about, trends in the technology industry, VC/investing. While there is a tech bent to the content and the backgrounds of individuals here, it’s definitely worth checking out.

To your health,

BHP Team

Behind the scenes of a virtual health & tech incubator (& other thoughts)

charleshuang — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:45:53 -0400

Behind the scenes of a virtual health & tech incubator (& other thoughts):

Here’s a good post and read from an engaged and involved Blueprint Health mentor, Charles Huang around the landscape of health/tech accelerators and incubators.

Feedback welcome!

To your health,

BPH Team

What exactly is Blueprint Health?

charleshuang — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:31:00 -0400

What exactly is Blueprint Health?:

Hello there! Welcome to the new Blueprint Health tumblelog, which we have created to share a little bit more about who we are, what we’re about, and what we’re interested. This tumblelog will supplement the efforts on our main website which you can find here, but is meant to primarily be somewhat more informal and an outlet for our mentors and community to post articles, pictures, and blogs around our shared interests in health, technology, and innovation.

No, that cute picture of a kid doctor is not any of us, but is a nod to the birth of this tumblelog on Halloween. For more information on the founding partners of Blueprint Health, please find them here: Brad, Mathew, and Peter. For more info on me, click here or here.

And reminder that applications to the 1st class that starts January 2012 in NYC are due in ~2 weeks… apply here & spread the word!

Stay tuned!

To your health,

BPH