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Notes from the JPM19 Vortex: Price Apocalypse, Celgene Fallout & More

Xconomy

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 I did that?

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Make It Work- the real story

InfoChachkie

However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. .

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

Both Sides of the Table

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011).

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Bio Roundup: Graham-Cassidy, Axovant Fail, SpringWorks Launches & More

Xconomy

After drug pricing, count drug shortages among the hot button issues sparking patient ire. Last year, the FDA says, 23 drug shortages were reported , down from 26 the previous year (and 251 in 2011). But Hurricane Maria’s direct strike on Puerto Rico might put the progress made on reducing shortages to the test.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs

Xconomy

The industry can only go so far with growth through hyper-inflated pricing and mega-M&As. At some point pharma has to figure out how to make more drugs more efficiently, or face major dislocations like business-destroying price controls. The increasing need for new drugs is intense.

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