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I believe our process could have been improved with more advance readings and outside facillitation for some part of the process as we fornulated our strategy. An impartial informed facilitator with venture fund experience could have challenged our thinking more. Early in our organizational life cycle, we could benefit from six month checkpoints ...

Our plan approval process is rather simple since the three managing directors/founders have full authority to approve the plan and also were the plan developers. The plan is then shared with our limited partner investor base and we will report progress against the plan at our annual meeting. It is early in the life cycle of our plan and to ...

1. Provide and excellent return on investment for our Limited Parters. Make 4 to 5 investments in early stage healthcare companies that individually have a return potential of 10X or higher. 2. Raise Sante Ventures II in 2001. Develop an impressive porfolio of  15-20 investments with targeted return potentials of 10X and increase our ...

Vision Statement: Sante Ventures is a preeminent healtcare venture capital franchise, known as one of the best. Through its investments, Sante has delivered a significant and measurable impact on the US healthcare system. I think this statement is appropriate for a new healthcare venture firm. It makes a forward looking statement ...

Main competitive advantages:  1.  The three founding partners of our healthcare venture fund include myself with large health system executive experience, a physician with deep clinical, managed care and policy experience, and a third partner with start-up, finance and venture experience.This diversity of backgrounds is unique and ...

I have recently raised a $130M healthcare venture fund and have changed my career focus away from traditional hospital adminstration, most recently retired as CEO of Ascension Health in 2004. So strategic planning for the venture fund has included strategy around rasing the fund and executing the roll out, defining our target investment profile ...