Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Medassets CEO John Bardis (Part 2)

SM: How did you respond when your initial MedAssets business model did not work as well as you had hoped? JB: I was presented with an opportunity to acquire InSource Health Services, which was a small group purchasing organization formerly known as the Southern California Group Purchasing Services. That was in August of 1999.

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Deal Radar 2009: InQuickER

More Healthcare IT on today’s Deal Radar. InQuickER is an online check-in service that cuts the waiting time on visits to the emergency room (ER). Though Tyler Kiley, the founder and CEO, has never been directly involved in the treatment process at an emergency department, he was always aware of the problems facing hospital emergency

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Mentor Capital, Not Venture Capital

Here are some noteworthy reviews and mentions of Sramana’s new book: Rick Terrien of Sustainable Work says, “Yes. A thousand times, yes. The subject of Ms. Mitra’s book and the approach she recommends is clear: You need to bootstrap most businesses. The next step is mentor capital, not venture capital. This will come when you’ve

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Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Medassets CEO John Bardis (Part 1)

John Bardis is the chairman, president and CEO of MedAssets. He has over 23 years’ experience in the healthcare industry and has held various senior management positions with companies such as Baxter, Kinetic Concepts, and Theratx. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Board for High Bar Capital. SM: Let’s start with

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Sramana to Moderate AMITA’s Women Entrepreneurs Panel on July 16 in Palo Alto

Have you ever considered starting a company or joining a start-up? How do you evaluate opportunities and decide when to take the plunge? How do you finance your startup? Come and learn from a panel of women who have started companies in a variety of industries and taken different paths to success: – Stephanie Fohn,

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June 3 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording for this morning’s roundtable:

Deal Radar 2009: Marin Software

Marin Software offers a paid search management application for advertisers and agencies to enable them to manage large-scale paid search campaigns across search engines such as Google and MSN in an easy and effective manner. Through its main product, a SaaS application called the Marin Search Marketer™, Marin offers advertisers campaign set-up and management, bid optimization,

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Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 7)

SM: How did you fix your sales issues after you fired your first VP of Sales? KS: I went and got a new VP from the semiconductor industry. She had built $300 million businesses and knew solution sales.