U.S. CTO on Healthcare & Entrepreneurs

The US is starting to support healthcare entrepreneurs. Aneesh Chopra, the first CTO if the United States recently went to Stanford University to talk about how entrepreneurs will change healthcare. This talk hit home, as the drchrono team is doing just that, focusing through technology to make a positive impact in healthcare.

This recording was from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, an amazing entrepreneur resource. If you are interested in Healthcare and some thoughts from the government on the topic, listen.

He talks about the future focus of healthcare on care coordination, advising people to stay healthy, outcome, quality and value.

Michael and I had the honor of meeting Aneesh recently.

More about Aneesh -
www.whitehouse.gov/cto

Have a question, ask Aneesh here -
twitter.com/#!/AneeshChopra

VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition 2010

On March 5th 2010, Michael and I had the honor of presenting about Dr. Chrono at the VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition in the Northeast Region held at NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The event was a success and was great fun. I highly recommend to any entrepreneur to enroll and if you get into the event, go! You will learn how Venture Capital firms might negotiate via a term sheet.

There were a number of high caliber school students that participated in the event. (Yale, Columbia, London Business School, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and MIT)

Not to mention a number of great VC’s were at the competition judging the students as well.

• Bessemer Venture Partners
• Seventysix Capital
• Edison Venture Funds
• Zelkova Ventures
• Investor Growth Capital
• Greenhill SAVP
• Rose Tech Ventures
• NGEN Partners
• Tangent Capital
• Angel Investor Forum
• Lux Capital
• Penny Black LLC.
• Bluegrass Growth Fund

Michael and I were able to chat with some of the investors like Jay Levy, Bronson Lingamfelter and Justin Wohlstadter from Penny Black to name a few.

Below are some pictures from the event:

More pictures of the competition can be found here.

Check out this great blog post by Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures as well!

NY Tech Meetups

One essential part of Dr. Chrono is seeing new technologies and talking to companies to generate new ideas and partnerships.

Michael and I go to the NY Tech Meetup’s to learn, grow and understand how we can apply new ideas in the health industry.

Nate Westheimer is the organizer of NY Tech Meetup.

Check out Nates blog, I highly recommend it.

The NY Tech meetup is by far the largest meetup around, I am amazed at the turnouts of 1000+ people that come and join in.

Below are some pictures from the November 2009 meetup.

Baby Boomers Drive New Businesses

Some great information into the people starting new businesses:

Marketing Your New Dental Practice for Free

Setting up a new dental practice is one of the most challenging business endeavors anyone can undertake. Here are some free resources where a new (or existing) dentist can register their dental practice so it can be found by customers searching locally. These sites are also a great place to have your existing patient base go and give you positive reviews. These are the top 3 sites you should register your practice info with to start. All of these sites are very popular and very effective at getting people nearby your practice to know about you and find your address and phone number.

1) Yelp.com *reviews important
Yelp is an online community based “Zagat Guide” for everything. You can add your dental practice to the site and have your existing patients sign up and leave reviews about how great you are.
Click Here to Register Your Practice with Yelp for Free
Yelp Business FAQ

2) Google Local Search *reviews important
Click Here to Register Your Practice with Google Local for Free

3) Yahoo Local Search *reviews important
Click Here to Register Your Practice with Yahoo Local for Free

4) Dr Oogle Dentist Guide *Dentist Reviews, Dentist Ratings, Dentist Recommendations and Dental Help
Click Here to view