[Article originally from Vector.tv, author, Steven Loeb] Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. Take diabetes, for example, where there have been a slew of different companies tackling that problem, and raising money in…
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all – – O. Wilde
The existence of a driving force driving bipolar folks toward entrepreneurship has been widely studied.. and it’s in no way because they dislike or can’t hack in a more traditional setting. Manic depressives tend not only to gravitate toward entrepreneurial careers, the startups themselves demonstrate many of the traits common to bipolar disorder. Legendary startup…
As the founder and CEO of a tech startup, I found that transparency about my condition to my colleagues was a major step in the right direction. I spoke individually to my key wingmen, I took each out separately to lunch and explained the situation and my plan for improvement. Later, like the speaker in…
When I was first diagnosed, I asked my psychologist why people with bipolar disorder hadn’t been culled out of the population through natural selection. To me it seemed that manic depressives are marked less fit for survival; if, as most in the psychiatric community agree, bipolar disorder has genetic roots, then those fortunate folks would…
I knew my psychiatrist, Dr. Goldberg M.D. was fantastic at his job after more or less rescuing me from one of the darkest periods of my life. What I didn’t realize is that nearly everyone else in the bipolar-focused psych business feels likewise. After randomly finding several articles he penned from WebMd I decided to…
My psychiatrist once told me that I don’t fully understand what it feels like to be content – that as an adult I likely had never experience pure, simple satisfaction – that it is a mental state almost completely foreign to me. On the contrary, this collection of bipolar faces shows hope amidst despair. Tragically,…
We honor the memories of our brilliant, brave and beloved entrepreneurs whose missions will never be accomplished. We seek to understand the causes of their strengths and vulnerabilities, hoping that application of this knowledge will empower future entrepreneurs to prevail. From a book “Touched Entrepreneurs Touched with Fire” by Michael A. Freeman, M.D. From a…
