Category: IT

Bryan Vartabedian, also known as @doctor_V is one of the sharpest thinkers on the crossroads of medicine and social media. His blog – 33 charts – is inspiring, ground breaking and thought provoking all at the same time. Through his Twitter presence, whith more than 5,800 followers, Bryan demonstrates that medical authority does not necessarily have to derive from peer reviewed publications. In this interview, he shares some of his wisdom with the MedCrunch community. Enjoy! MedCrunch: How did you get started on blogging? Bryan: In 2006 I was writing a book on irritable babies.  At the time, it was suggested that if you were an author, you had to have a blog.  And so I started my first blog “Parenting Solved” with the selfish intent of selling books.  I remember when the blog was just a few months old, Nestlé and Gerber merged and I published a short piece on the future of baby food.  I didn’t think much of it but the post was picked up by one of the major financial feeds in Europe and my traffic skyrocketed.  Industry professionals called and wanted to talk.  I was shocked.  It was then that I realized the power of […]

The startup scene is familiar ground for many MedCrunch readers. So is its lingo and concepts. The lean startup movement with proponents such as Eric Ries and Steve Blank has been an important voice, when it comes to entrepreneurship and building companies in the tech environment – Just think “agile development” or “customer development”. These processes are all about rapid iteration, hypothesis generation, falsification and fast learning and are commonly used in software programing. They were born out of the notion that startups cannot be managed like small brothers of big companies. They have to validate their business models first and only then they can grow up to become like their corporate counterparts. Some major questions every startup entrepreneur should ask him/herself according to some of these entrepreneurial concepts are: 1. What problem are we solving? 2. Is this an important problem to solve? 3. How are we going to solve this problem? 4. Whose problem is this? 5. How much are they going to pay for a solution? 6. Who is going to pay? 7. Who are going to be our partners or competitors? 8. What are the channels we are going to have to use in order to reach our […]

Every field needs role models and so does medicine. There are certainly various types that are referred to as role models, but we particularly want to focus on people being recognized widely and pubicly.