tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:12:24 +0000Caron FootprintColloborationConsumptionEnergyEtiquetteIndiaMEDICAL INFORMATICSRecyclingSocial EngineeringSocial MediaSocial NetworkingWeb 2.0angel investingfund raisehealthcaremedicarepredictionpricewaterhouse coopersservice businessstrategyventure capitalhttp://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)Blogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6204061294436411138Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:42:00 +00002013-01-02T21:01:58.416-05:00 At a recent annual Venture Capital 2012 round-up meeting, I had a different agenda. Instead of trying to see what we did wrong and who made a gazzilion dollars, I wanted to find out, what would make the worlds most desirable companies to work for? Even if it has just one employee. For me, the word was 'desire' - often used in a sensuous context. The market today wants that, they http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/building-worlds-most-desirable-company.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-511003842572682940Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:20:00 +00002012-01-08T16:32:01.239-05:00 The pace of my blogging has surely slowed down since I left Generation Health. Many have asked if I can increase the pace with all the new things I encounter on the "other side" of healthcare - research. I plan to talk about in next month.  Before I get into 2012, let me look back at my 2011 predictions and see where I missed the mark and where I did not. I said SEARCH will be hot and http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-outlook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6751459261418440829Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:14:00 +00002011-10-03T23:15:37.543-05:00 The Good (1.2) - Momentum, enthusiasm, ideas, capital commitments, execution, analytics, pharmacogenomics and steps in the right direction. Many companies, many voices, many singing the same tune. The Bad (1) - Cereal aisle effect - clarity or confusion? I almost needed an "organic aisle" of companies focused on patients. As a patient, am I now expected to log into 14 different "portals" to http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2011/10/health-20-san-francisco-musings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6327596697018855210Mon, 23 May 2011 00:19:00 +00002011-05-22T19:26:27.979-05:00Today is a strange day. It is strange because I realized no matter how hard anyone works – in the end – if we’re lucky and smarter than the guy sitting next to us – we’ll get it right. If not – we will continue with the hope to get it right somehow. There is really nothing you or I can do anything about how things are going to go. It’s all about how you can influence others to listen to your http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2011/05/can-economist-be-replaced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-2798427915819423322Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:44:00 +00002010-12-28T16:47:51.820-05:00If 2009 was the year of hope, bail outs, 'fixing' our economy, saving your dollar, tax rebates, shrinking private equity market and being politically correct, 2010 brought us the grim realization that US is no longer a super-power, political shakeout between the republican and democratic primaries, lame duck congress sessions, the healthcare debate, the iPad, Chevy Volt, 1 in 7 Americans living http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2010/12/2011-outlook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-2840031688082737822Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:12:00 +00002010-07-30T22:41:03.991-05:00I was recently talking to a friend who served with the 101st Airborne near Camp Ranh Bay in Vietnam. He was barely 16 years old during his first tour of duty in ’65 with the 327th Infantry but was soon promoted to a Lieutenant in 2 years. I was surprised he even lasted that long given the average life span for anyone on ground operations in Vietnam was less than a month. He had been shot twice, http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2010/07/cheif-everything-officer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-5934598596147112790Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:56:00 +00002010-04-27T12:28:36.194-05:00Starting a business in 2010 is very different than 1998. Everything from hiring logistics, financials, telecom, space acquisition to managing my IT infrastructure can be achieved in a matter of hours if not minutes. I am a true believer that your competitiveness lies in how fast, how decisively and how accurately you align execution to tools that allow you to execute effectively. The cloud space http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2010/04/art-is-in-execution-execution-is-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6157748281632690721Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:43:00 +00002010-04-26T10:54:36.348-05:00 Not a day goes by when I receive calls and emails from people introducing themselves or calling me back regarding work. One would think that in 2010, we pretty much nailed down art of leaving voice mails or greeting someone on the phone or replying to a voice mail. But I guess, for the majority, it is still a learning experience. A lot has been written over the years about phone etiquettes but http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/12/phone-etiquette-ones-i-havent-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-4827700363833620670Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:15:00 +00002009-12-01T15:21:30.127-05:00The below are general observations of doing business in India. With every generic rule, there is always an exception but being an Indian born and raised in India, I concur to these observations yet once again many years after I left the country.1 Timing: People are late (always) to show up for meetings by at last 20 mins, personal or not. If someone tells you they will be at a certain location http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/12/doing-business-in-india-10-commandments.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-7873973051762916651Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +00002009-11-20T15:40:58.881-05:00I attended the Personalized Medicine conference in Boston recently. The overall theme centered around clinical effectiveness of genetic tests, the economics, the logistics of interpreting these tests and innovation in this space. Talks began by discussing issues facing healthcare in the US today and what measures, federal and private, were being put in place to mitigate some of them. There is no http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/11/personalized-medicine-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6252108786956662557Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:47:00 +00002009-11-05T16:25:42.739-05:00If you ask me what I really like to do in life if I had all the time and resources – my immediate answer would be – practice Martial Arts. Martial Art is a big part of me and has been since I was 10. What I practice today is known as Shaolin Kempo – the oldest and the deadliest form of martial arts used by Buddhist ‘warrior’ monks from the Shaolin Temple in China. The physical training is brutal http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/11/martial-arts-and-entrepreneurship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-1658060479930664052Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:55:00 +00002009-10-20T15:25:54.278-05:00I looked at a folder in my inbox today and noticed that I had attended over 300 networking events in the past 4 years. And that does not include all the unofficial ones I have just dropped by. That’s a lot of events, a lot of people and a lot of time spent social engineering. I talked to a few people I know in this industry and it seems I have attended more events than most organizers (at leasthttp://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/10/event-management-101.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-8297641043537331904Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:51:00 +00002009-10-01T09:54:17.044-05:00People make companies - companies do not make people. This well known fact is discussed more common than any other topic in corporate history. Yet, companies and ideas fail and yet companies tend to become mediocre and yet teams can't execute. We experience and hear about people leaving everyday – at the companies we work in, in the news, at your friends firm, etc. Which is fine because change ishttp://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-do-good-employees-leave.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6129985659789650616Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:00 +00002009-08-25T15:33:31.409-05:00Oct 1998: A beautiful late fall evening in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts, I sat in a corner seat in one of my MBA classes, listening to my marketing professor talk about a business case. I wondered why he picked that particular one. Halfway into the class, he opened up the class for a debate. I was the first student who raised my hand and asked “Why are you discussing this case and why is ithttp://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/08/zen-of-measurement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-7432021670819054159Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +00002009-07-02T11:20:54.116-05:00Below are excerpts from personal experience less than 12 months ago from 3 of the top hospitals in India. This is meant for non-Indians wanting to go to India to receive medical treatment. This is also meant for those in India to realize the potential for what could be done about these situations and understand why some of these issues are important equation in a developing a country. So here http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/07/healthcare-delivery-experiences-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-5385924065617953736Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:10:00 +00002009-06-24T15:36:50.954-05:00Caron FootprintConsumptionEnergyRecyclingWhile driving to work this morning, I noticed that I now have a 'trash bag' in my car. 10 years ago, I did not have one. My car is not the primary family car neither do I eat in my car other than a granola bar. I still land up generating enough trash per week to change my trash bag once a week. That was not the most comforting feeling that in the ~3 hours every weekday that I spend in the car (=http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/06/know-your-foot-print.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-3224209160247970039Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +00002009-09-18T12:02:06.571-05:00ColloborationEtiquetteSocial EngineeringSocial MediaSocial NetworkingWeb 2.0I consider myself one of the early adoptors of social media. No, I don't mean MySpace, SecondLife, Twitter or Facebook. I mean LinkedIn - where I have existed since 2000. Reid Hoffman's vision for LinkedIn was to enable efficiencies and effectiveness in collaboration. Collaboration is not a word we use socially - rather professionally. However, in today's world, Reid's idea has gone way above andhttp://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-networking-etiquette.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-2165804865701346296Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:00 +00002009-05-14T11:42:36.231-05:00Since 2005, I have had the privilege to work with some of the best minds behind healthcare best practices in the US. Folks like Dr. Tejal Gandhi, Dr. David Bates, Dr. Blackford Middleton, John Glaser and others have given me the opportunity to create and work on systems that think beyond traditional models of care delivery.SmartForm is a outpatient point-of-care application that is able to http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/05/smartforms-ambulatory-clinical-decision.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-2158749627960409853Tue, 12 May 2009 18:37:00 +00002009-05-12T16:03:28.648-05:00I have seen 4 recessions in my life. 2 of them during my working career. The last one in early 2000's proved to be incredibly volatile and we all thought doom & gloom but it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I made almost half of what I did before the crash of 2000. My investors backed out of commitments and I was forced into an involuntary liquidity event. I was laid off http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-recession-did-for-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-6542663463309926024Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:16:00 +00002009-03-29T15:15:08.641-05:00A chief resident at a large academic medical center in Boston once addressed a crowd as his opening sentence during grand rounds: “Folks, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that half of what we know in medicine is wrong. The bad news is, we don’t know which half”.Physicians today are struggling to keep up with and apply all the advances in scientific knowledge to patient care. The http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/03/delivering-disruptive-care-genetic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-5039821713404174424Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:25:00 +00002009-03-24T09:19:48.751-05:00Over the past few months, select few of us engaged ourselves to be a part of the Healthcare Transition Program that the current White House administration put in place for various states in the US to participate. The discussion is led by Dr.Michael Brown, CIO of Harvard University Health Services in Cambridge, MA.The scope was to address at a high level, key recommendations that will transform http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/02/recomendations-to-washington-obama.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-8779217797870688555Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:23:00 +00002009-02-03T17:41:24.728-05:00Employees are your key assets. Whether you fail as a business or come out as a winner is a direct function of your employees abilities to adapt to changing environments. You could take away my coffee, freeze my bonus, cancel my GYM membership, ask me to take a pay cut; but if I believe in the company's strategic vision, the current landscape I serve, and the people I work with, I will stick http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/02/assessing-your-employees-creating-great.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-2019979602834115539Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:42:00 +00002009-01-26T16:27:38.202-05:00So you want to be a VC. Well, it's a game not everyone can play - sorry. Because VC is more an art than a science. I have been saying this for a decade now. VC cannot be taught - it just comes to you if you have the right philosophy and business acumen. So the question is how do you feel it, who typically feels it and when do you feel it. Here's my list of top 10 qualifiers on why you should http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-10-qualities-of-vc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-7129968100035354815Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:49:00 +00002009-01-23T19:40:19.671-05:00At times I meet people who talk at length about something that looks and feels like this Windows error message. Why do people, especially in business - where life is supposed to be structured - talk like they landed from Mars? Today was a frustrating day. It seemed like anyone and everyone talking to me was speaking an alien language. I had to literally decipher through their gibberish speech to http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/01/unintelligible-lexicons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15826260.post-4454867738585261616Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:00 +00002009-01-16T15:48:13.830-05:00Once upon a time, there was an immigrant living in Massachusetts. He had big dreams. He was brought up in India and grew up in a place where money was valued and people lived within their means. There were no credit cards, loans or mortgages that he knew of. People bought stuff and cherished it for many years. People fixed things. This immigrant came to America, the land of plenty. He understood http://newenglandcapitalventures.blogspot.com/2009/01/adventures-in-credit-immigrants-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janak Joshi)0