Cost Savings: QA, RA, Validation, Calibration

BioMedSA is part of a nationwide network of similar organizations who leverage their members’ purchasing volume to pre-negotiate cost savings contracts with key suppliers. These pre-negotiated contracts are available to all BioMedSA members. In this post, we are pleased to feature PSC Biotech. They are a national company that has served over 100 clients in … Read more

Biofest Invest 2022

Biofest Invest 2022 was held on March 30, 2022, the day before the start of San Antonio’s Fiesta celebration. Over 250 people were registered in order to support medtech, biotech, digital health, and pharma entrepreneurs make connections with investors, support organizations, and colleagues, as well as receive helpful information to enable their growth.  Over 25 … Read more

Cost Savings: Waste Recycling and Disposal

BioMedSA is part of a nationwide network of similar organizations who leverage their members’ purchasing volume to pre-negotiate cost savings contracts with key suppliers. These pre-negotiated contracts are available to all BioMedSA members. This month, we are pleased to feature CleanHarbors. CleanHarbors is one of the largest environmental services companies in North America, managing waste … Read more

Tax Obligations for Businesses

Tax Obligations are a function of the formation type of a company and the states in which the company is formed plus the states in which the company has a business presence. Tax obligations also come from the nature and activities of a business: the company’s fiscal year; whether there are employees; whether there is … Read more

Cost Savings: Lab Equipment

BioMedSA is part of a nationwide network of similar organizations who leverage their members’ purchasing volume to pre-negotiate cost savings contracts with key suppliers. These pre-negotiated contracts are available to all BioMedSA members. This month, we are pleased to feature American Laboratory Trading (ALT). ALT supplies refurbished and surplus lab equipment to life science companies. … Read more

Cost Savings: Press Releases

BioMedSA has negotiated a cost-savings opportunity for start-up companies from our own PR firm, Lisa Owens Strategic Marketing. BioMedSA members with less than 10 employees, less than $5M annual sales and less than 5 years old are eligible for a free press release (up to 10 hours pro bono). After the first press release, services … Read more

Anti-Dilution Provisions in Venture Capital Investment**

Venture capital investors invest in companies in the hopes that later rounds of investment will increase the valuation of the company. As more investors invest in a given company, the percentage of the company that each investor owns decreases, but as long as subsequent investors invest at a price per share that is higher, the … Read more

Why does a Startup need a Marketing Plan Early On?

CEO:     We invented an amazing, novel, disruptive technology. The market is huge. Let’s hire a sales leader to go sell it! Sales Leader, (after a short time with the company): I thought you told me this product was ready for the market? CEO:     It is! What are you saying? Sales Leader: Our customers are upset. They’re … Read more

Who’s Who: Tim Anderson

Who’s Who: Tim Anderson Timothy J.C. Anderson, Ph.D., is a professor and co-lead of the Disease Intervention & Prevention Program at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed). For more than 30 years, Anderson has studied how malaria and parasitic worms that cause schistosomiasis evolve to resist drugs, and how to develop better treatments that are … Read more

BioMedSA Approves 100th Member

Since its founding in 2005, BioMedSA has sought key organizations to support its mission through membership. With a mission to accelerate the growth of the life science industry in the San Antonio region, and thus improve health and the economy, members know that they are supporting a movement that turns ideas into actions. Initially focused … Read more

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