We (Katy & Stephen) recently had the opportunity to spend three days in Sarasota, Florida visiting our friends at the Institute for the Ages (i4a). The Institute is a new organization and a great asset to innovators looking to design products and services the 50+ market – from early start-ups to large corporates. If you’ve [...]
Aging2.0 is a proud media sponsor of AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ Live Pitch event. Here’s a press release / update from our friends at AARP. Congratulations to the Live Pitch finalists! We hope to see many of you in New Orleans on September 21st. Use the promo code Aging2 for FREE admission ($295 savings!). WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 5, 2012 – AARP [...]
Hey startups – Would you like to get to know AARP? Would you like to pitch your company to venture capitalists and angel investors? Would you like to get your product/service in front of thousands of AARP members? And do you want a massive discount, exclusive to Aging2.0 readers? Yes, we thought you might. Read [...]
In the previous post about the Healthcare Unbound Conference, Ryan Frederick commented that the time for change is now and that in order to create meaningful change we need to (1) focus on the consumer and (2) design innovative business models. LeadingAge and LeadingAge CAST co-sponsored a session – Innovative Technology-Enabled Care Models – which [...]
[This is a guest post by Ryan Frederick, founder and Principal of Point Forward Solutions, a strategic consulting and financial advisory firm dedicated to Seniors Housing & Care and related Health Care Services industries. Prior to founding Point Forward Solutions, Ryan was Senior Vice President at Erickson Living. Ryan can be reached at rfrederick@pointforwardsol.com and @ryanefrederick.] This past week San Francisco [...]
[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0 (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]
We’d like to get the Aging2.0 Meetup Group moving, so in the short term, we’ll propose to gather at the AIA meeting “Priorities for an Age-Friendly NYC” to be held Tuesday, 6pm at 536 LaGuardia Place. More info here. Hope to see some folks there – look out for Emily and I.
I gave this presentation as part of my panel session on “raising angel and VC funding for your startup” to an audience of mainly entrepreneurs at the Boomer Venture Summit in Santa Clara, CA this week (conference recap here). Raising Angel and VC Money for Aging-Related Startups[slideshare id=8349720&w=425&h=355&sc=no] View more presentations from Stephen Johnston The summary [...]
I’ve just returned from a few days with Mary Furlong and her crew at the Silicon Valley Boomer Conference in Santa Clara, and have to say I’m thoroughly impressed. It’s the second of Mary’s events I’ve been to – the first was the Boomer Business Summit a few months ago in San Francisco, and she [...]
