The MedStartr Blog
Stories, event recaps, and insights from one of the world's largest healthcare innovation communities.
Patient Summit USA
The 9th annual Patient Summit USA (PACE) is here! This conference concentrates on the most important ingredient in healthcare — patients. It’s goal is to create a discussion around Patient Adherence & Communication Strategies, as outlined by patients themselves. Eyeforpharma […]
October 18, 2012
Welcome to About.MedStartr.com
Welcome to About.MedStartr.com, our home away from home where you can learn all about healthcare crowdfunding, how it works, and how we are helping drive healthcare innovation faster and better than ever. Thank you for visiting today. We hope you […]
October 17, 2012
A Million Mothers: MedStartr's First Campaign
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, so we thought there wasn't a better month to begin our "Million Mothers" campaign. All month long, we'll be featuring and launching projects that protect the health of mothers and women around the […]
October 1, 2012
Aetna Sponsors Healthcare Revolution: San Francisco!
September 27, 2012
The Social Good Summit and How MedStartr is Crowdfunding Philanthropy
This past weekend, two of our founders, Alex & Komal, had the fortune to attend the Social Good Summit co-hosted in NYC, Beijing, Nairobi and Somalia. The agenda was crafted to create ongoing commentaries on how technology has developed new […]
September 27, 2012
No Slackers Among the Backers
You would not believe the incredible folks that back our projects. It is a veritable Who’s Who in Healthcare Innovation and Patient Advocacy. There are thousands of you now, but here is the list from Regina Holliday’s Walking Gallery MedStartr […]
September 21, 2012
Send in the Clowns: Viral Videos in Healthcare Innovation
by Pooja Majumdar and Alex Fair Some of our favorite healthcare videos have only dozens of views and they just don’t have the “forward me” attraction of cats wearing silly hats or Borat (Sacha Cohen) here being perpetually weird. I […]
September 13, 2012
Tampostat Video On MedStartr
Tampostat Video by Alex Fair This is our most inspiring and newest project video on MedStartr. This product can save a million mothers. The girl effect comes to mothers. How did they do it? Hire some big agency? Nope, here […]
September 11, 2012
MedStartr in Nature
We have been fortunate to be written about in many amazing publications, but today’s publication takes the cake. Having spent the better part of a decade as a scientist with the full intention of doing something great enough to be […]
September 8, 2012
Be My #CFF!
Welcome to CrowdFunder Friday! Yup, so begins the weekend when most of us startup Guys and Gals get to doing what is really important - changing the world with our startup FULL TIME for two days without any pesky school […]
September 8, 2012
Doing Events Right: Part 1
By Jigar Mehta and Alex Fair We know it seems like an easy day when you go to a conference or event, but it should not be for entrepreneurs. It isn't all pretty faces and glad handing, there is some […]
September 6, 2012
Endogoddess and the Space Elevator
Why “only” $8000 to Build a Space Elevator? We’ve gotten critiques from our friends that “we’re not asking for enough…” The (usually unspoken) implication being that “if you’re really serious about building an Elevator on the Moon, why are you […]
September 5, 2012