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by Ted Driscoll on March 30th, 2012 
March 30, 2012 source: Start-Up Emerging Medical Ventures – March 2012
Fueled by cost containment pressures and surgeon and patient demand, start-ups are working to develop next-generation incision closure devices that address the shortfalls of gold standard sutures and staples.
Surgical Incision Closure: Start-Ups Address A Megatrend In Health Care
For many years, and in millions of surgical procedures each year worldwide, non-absorbable and absorbable sutures and staples have been the primary methods of . . .
→ Read full post: ZipLine Medical Inc. A suture-like outcome at the speed of staples
by Ted Driscoll on February 22nd, 2011 A version of this article was originally published February 21, 2011 in The Health Care Blog Follow comments on the original blog post
mHealth – otherwise known as mobile healthcare – sounds like just what the doctor ordered to help make healthcare delivery cheaper and more effective. And since the Internet today essentially resides in everybody’s pocket, we have what amounts to a last-three-feet problem. So I’m not sure mHealth is ready for primetime, . . .
→ Read full post: mHealth – Potentially Valuable, But Not Ready For Primetime
by Ted Driscoll on February 6th, 2011 When I was in high school back in the 70′s, I remember my favorite physics teacher telling me about the difference between data and information. Data was raw, unprocessed and unlinked to any meaning. Information was what data became when it was linked to meaning. This was an important distinction that has even greater meaning today in 2011.
I also remember that data was precious, hard to find and gather, and often even hard to . . .
→ Read full post: Creating Value In A World of Big Data
by Ted Driscoll on December 7th, 2010 I was at an event with a group of MBA students a couple of weeks ago, chatting with two of them. One asked me how the venture deal flow was different in the past. I made the off-hand comment that the World of Could seemed to have grown much bigger, but the World of Should hadn’t kept pace. That passing comment has stimulated a lot of thought on my part in the past couple of weeks. . . .
→ Read full post: Musing on the “World of Could” and the “World of Should”
by Ted Driscoll on October 12th, 2010 Last year, Claremont Creek Ventures was exposed to over 500 startup ideas and entrepreneurs. As is probably typical in most early stage technology Venture Capitalists, we ultimately invest in less than 1% of the deals we see. That means we are saying “no” at least 99 times for every time we ultimately say “yes”. It is therefore understandable that VCs can seem negative, arbitrary and arrogant to the entrepreneurial community.
Why would we say “No”?
In . . .
→ Read full post: A VC’s “No”, What is it good for?
by Ted Driscoll on July 29th, 2010 Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot about how the VC model is dead, and the venture capital industry is drying up. This is justified by the lack of conventional exits and liquidity events, meaning the venture capital funds can’t return cash to their investors. While we have clearly been going through a flat spot in IPOs, and the world of acquirers is reduced, I’m not sure that implies the industry is dead. I think its just . . .
→ Read full post: Idea Flow
by Ted Driscoll on June 16th, 2010 The classical view of venture capital is that a VC invests in a company, grows it into revenue and breakeven, and then sells equity in it to the public in an IPO. The exit part is the VC’s can then sell their ownership interest in the startup to that public market of buyers as the company grows in value, or distribute their now-liquid shares to their limited partner investors to sell . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Exits
by Ted Driscoll on June 15th, 2010 After making a venture investment and building value in the startup, in preparation for an exit. This is the operational part of the job — how do you help a startup succeed? . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Managing and Growing the Deal After Investment
by Ted Driscoll on June 5th, 2010 This is the very belated third installment of my running saga about what makes a good VC. I have previously laid out a framework for identifying the skills that make a good VC, in rough chronological order through the process. Each installment covers a stage: Finding Deals Evaluating and Picking Deals Executing an Investment Managing and Growing the Deal After Investment Finding a Successful Exit Lets have a discussion of the skills involved in executing an . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Executing an Investment
by Ted Driscoll on June 4th, 2010 The VC business is a sifting business, as I have commented before. It is like hunting for pennies in your coin jar. Step 1 was about getting as many pennies in the jar, ideally as many promising pennies, as you can. In this Step 2, the VC is going through the jar trying to find the most valuable ones. . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Evaluating and Picking Deals
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