Are Services the Crack Cocaine of Cash Strapped Digital Health Companies?
Happens all the time. As you iterate your initial idea into a viable revenue-generating product, your cash reserves begin to reflect the extended timeline. You need a quick hit.
Lessons Learned at Rock Health CEO Summit 2019
For the past seven years, Rock Health has gathered digital health CEOs, from seed stage to round E (E!?), to hear how their colleagues address the challenges that, for the most part, everyone in the room has faced – or will soon.
Truisms in Mergers and Acquisitions
After 20 years and more than 325 health care deals closed, we’ve seen a lot. Here are some things we’ve learned. If someone says, “it’s business, nothing personal,” it isn’t, and it is. Nothing good can happen between a letter of intent and closing.
Preemptive Offers in M&A: Great for Buyers. Not so Much for Sellers.
After months of preparation, your company is finally on the market, and buyers are lining up like fairgoers at the funnel cake stand. With bids due in 45 days, you anxiously await the buzz of buyers competing against each other to land your...
Overheard at JP Morgan
Every January, thousands of health care investors and bankers and providers, oh my, flock to Union Square in San Francisco for Healthcarepalooza, otherwise known as the JP Morgan Health Care Conference. While some come bearing a golden ticket to attend the actual meeting, the overwhelming number of “attendees” are party crashers that occupy (in the literal sense)...
Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Theory of The Line.
You’re a seller 24 hours from closing a $50 million dollar transaction. The deal has edged right up to the brink several times, leaving nerves – and relationships – a bit frayed. But you’re past all that. And then the buyer says...