(This post originally appeared on TechEntrepreneurship, the TandemLaunch blog, where I’ll be contributing from time to time from now on.) This post is all about a choice many people face… Read more Is grad school useful for young entrepreneurs? Guest post from TechEntrepreneurship →
I talked a few posts ago about how scientific publications might be vanity metrics in disguise– good for showing an illusion of progress, but the enemy of true breakthroughs. Here’s a quick update to that thought: Peter Higgs, the British physicist whose work was the foundation behind the recent discovery of the subatomic particle bearing his name (the Higgs Boson) and who I mentioned in that post, might agree. Speaking recently with the British newspaper The Guardian, Higgs expressed his belief that “no university would employ him in today’s academic… Read more Publications and Vanity Metrics: an update →
Are you a driven, entrepreneurial problem-solver looking for cutting-edge technology to start Montreal’s next big company? Or maybe you’re a veteran coder, looking for new problems to work on with new people? Or maybe you’re a PhD student who has invented something awesome, if only there was a way to commercialize it? Well if you’re any of those people, or wish you were, you should come to the TandemLaunch Pitch Day, in partnership with FounderProject, coming up on December 11th at our soon-to-be new office space. TandemLaunch is currently looking… Read more TandemLaunch Pitch Day →
I’m very pleased to announce that BackTrack, the tool for back pain patients I outlined in a previous post, has taken some significant steps towards becoming a real product! I’ve… Read more BackTrack + TandemLaunch →
Are scientific publications a vanity metric? Last week, while giving an informal talk about Disruptive Science as part of the McGill Dept. of Dentistry OHS series, an interesting thought emerged… Read more Publications and Vanity Metrics →
This past Tuesday, I was fortunate to attend the first (hopefully annual) CareFWD 2013 conference down in Boston, which was put on by Chris and Sarai Tsai of CareInnovators. CareFWD… Read more CareFWD 2013 →
Thinking about the wearable device for back pain patients I outlined yesterday- here’s an ‘It’s the X for Y’ comparable. It’s the blood glucose monitor for back pain patients. Blood glucose monitors allow diabetics to keep track of their own blood sugar throughout the day, and helps to plan meals, activities and medications on a day-by-day basis at home. Blood glucose monitors allow diabetic patients to take some control of their condition using day-to-day metrics that lead to actionable progress goals. Not only do glucose monitors help patients at home, but… Read more The back pain patient app: one direct comparable →
So I had a thought the other day that just might turn into a great product. Here’s the tl;dr version: Wearable devices for back pain patients can help them monitor… Read more A killer app for back pain patients →
