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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 Nat Goldhaber on March 27th, 2012 
March 25, 2012 source: GigaOM Earth2Tech
Update: March 27, 2012 – see GigaOM’s followup article: The story of Energy Cache, a drop-dead simple energy idea by Katie Fehrenbacher from an extensive interview with the founder and President of Energy Cache, Aaron Fyke, giving the details of how the technology works, how the company came into being, where it’s headed and how Bill Gates and Bill Gross became involved.
Energy Cache, one . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Energy Cache featured in GigaOM Earth2Tech
by John Steuart on January 7th, 2012 
Keep sweating — it’s good for your venture, and let us help connect you.
by John Steuart Managing Director
During the holidays, I’ve been listening to the biography of Steve Jobs on my iPhone, and I’m reminded yet again that innovation, brilliance and the power to change the world comes often from the most unlikely sources. It is impressive to me how the guts to challenge the status quo, take risks and not stop until . . .
→ Read full post: Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
by John Steuart on September 15th, 2011
Entrepreneurs and venture-backed companies seeking financing in the near term, take notice. The hot market for companies is going to cool off in 3 to 6 months. Hurry up and get your round closed before it gets harder and terms get tougher.
In my 20 years of participating in the venture market both as a VC and an entrepreneur seeking VC funds, VC funding cycles follow the success or lags in the NASDAQ and . . .
→ Read full post: Tougher venture funding environment ahead; entrepreneurs—get your rounds closed.
by Brad Webb on July 6th, 2011 July 1, 2011 source: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News by Brad Webb
Rapid Transition from Laboratory Discoveries to Commercialization Is Transforming Healthcare
It’s been less than a decade since a full human genome was sequenced, but already there is talk that the promise of genomics-inspired personal medicine is not being realized. I couldn’t disagree more. As we point out in this article, cardiologists, psychiatrists, and internists can now order quick and inexpensive genetics-based screening . . .
→ Read full post: Moving Quickly from an Idea to a Product
by Claremont Creek Alerts on April 25th, 2011 April 21, 2011 source: Gigaom
When it comes to clean-energy investing 2.0, venture capitalists are beyond looking for the silver bullet — or the magic battery –- they spent the last decade hunting and hoping for.
Today, VCs are more likely to invest their dollars in slightly less ambitious energy-efficiency projects, Paul Kedrosky, senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, told the audience at GigaOM’s Green:Net conference. Kedrosky sat down with a . . .
→ Read full post: For VC’s, No More Chasing Magic Batteries
by Claremont Creek Alerts on February 16th, 2011 February 16, 2011 source: peHUB
Remember the Internet’s last mile dilemma? The smart grid may have its own a last mile difficulties.
High costs and immature technologies could leave consumers short of power and utilities with few options to deliver it. Both dilemmas will restrict the nation’s ability to manage power in an age of climate change. It’s enough to make an investor salivate.
Nat Goldhaber, managing director at Claremont Creek Ventures, . . .
→ Read full post: Investor Targets Local Energy Storage For Smart Grid’s Last Mile Dilemma
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 Claremont Creek Alerts on November 26th, 2010 November 24, 2010 source: TechCrunch GreenTech
Nat Goldhaber was interviewed by TechCrunch TV’s Sarah Lacy.
“In retrospect, Tesla may have been cleantech’s Netscape moment. It didn’t get off to the world’s greatest start, but like a few other venture-backed IPOs, lately it has been trading at nearly double its opening price.
Meanwhile, a few other cleantech companies have filed S-1s and several more are waiting in the wings, watching to see what the market does. . . .
→ Read full post: Will 2011 Finally Be the Year of the Cleantech IPO?
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