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In Digital Health, Being the Best Isn’t Nearly Enough

If you’re one of the Red Bull Crowd (or is it now La Croix?), you love your technology. You love your code.  The logic, the simplicity, the creativity, the elegance, the way it attracts members of the opposite sex (well, maybe not that one, but you get the picture).

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.

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...

The Kevin Bacon Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions

There’s a game out there called “six degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Akin to the concept of “six degrees of separation,” CNN explains that the object is “to link celebrities to Bacon, in as few steps as possible, via the movies they have in common.