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The Interviews - Part 9 - Vc's and Investment Bankers

8/9/2018

 
This is the ninth in a series of 11 videos produced by the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. This one focuses on the IPO run-up.

The Interviews - Part 5 - Partners

8/1/2018

 
​This is the fifth in a series of 11 videos produced by the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. This one focuses on the dynamics of founder partnerships.

April 1999 - Discontinuity

1/28/2015

 
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Cool Company - A Site Where Hospitals Can Click to Shop
Today hospitals and suppliers checking into Neoforma.com swap 10,000 to 20,000 emails a month about products . . .

Fortune Magazine, April 12, 1999
E-Commerce Poised to Impact Healthcare Supply Industry Significantly
Several companies are lining up to cash in on what looks like the purest form of healthcare e-business . . . Probably one of the most visionary, and by far the best financed, of the medical product e-commerce companies is Neoforma . . .

IDN Strategies, April 1999
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
One of the Internet’s great conceits is that it changes everything. In the Internet Economy, you can buy anything from Furbys to furniture online . . . But swallowing the trillion-dollar dinosaur that is the U.S. healthcare industry could give Net entrepreneurs a serious case of indigestion . . .

The Industry Standard, April 5, 1999
Balance is not always found in the middle.

In moments of stress or confusion, I often catch myself looking back in time to similar situations...

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December 1998 - Bluescreen

1/21/2015

 
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Net Sites Take Liaison Role in Biz-to-Biz Transactions
. . . Neoforma Inc., for instance, provides information on hospital supplies . . . Infomediaries are gaining in popularity. Since its founding two years ago, Neoforma, a Santa Clara, Calif.–based company, has brought in more than 15,000 hospital product suppliers on its Web site . . .

Investor’s Business Daily December 14, 1998
Partitions, earlier erected for protection, now imprisoned the architect.

Since the day that we had enabled our website visitors to communicate with manufacturers of medical equipment, we had been receiving email from people who couldn’t find what they were looking for on our site...

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October 1998 - Focus

1/19/2015

 
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Neoforma Designs Website to Offer Medical Search Engine.
Online matchmaker. A website takes a page from amazon.com by linking healthcare professionals to medical products, hardware and services . . .

American Medical News, October 19, 1998
Healthcare Goes Online
Neoforma brings medical community closer via the Web. Until now, the healthcare industry has been slow to move its business processes to the Internet — but that’s changing. Neoforma Inc. is joining VHA Inc. and other companies building online trading communities for the healthcare industry . . .

Information Week, October 19, 1998
Neoforma Makes Itself Indispensable to Buyers and Sellers
The reactions of some of the first buyers and sellers to Neoforma, a new market targeted at hospitals, are the kind that any infomediary could envy. These guys are doing several things right . . .

Net Market Makers October 26, 1998
So much that hadn’t been possible before suddenly seemed inevitable. We passionately came to believe that it was our responsibility to pursue every opportunity.

The Chief Medical Officer of one of the world’s largest aid organizations was going to be quoted in an upcoming article saying that Neoforma was the—sort of—“medical Yahoo” of search engines...

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    I'm also a dichromatic tritan, which means I'm one of between 150 and 1,500 people in the US with this rather extreme form of colorblindness. I write about how colorblindness has profoundly affected my life's path on my other blog: dichromat.com

    My surreal journey as co-founder of Neoforma (formally NASDAQ: NEOF, later acquired by GHX) is the basis for Starting Something, a multiple award-winning book, used in many biz school entrepreneurship classes:

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