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Newsletters May 23, 2018

No. 308: Turtles and horses, Disney and The Who, collegiate innovators and Colorforms for grown-ups

Almost there: That long weekend is so close you can taste it, dear readers – but for now it’s only Wednesday, and the midpoint of another busy week in Long Island socioeconomics. It’s May 23 out there – World Tortoise Day, as a matter of fact, an absolutely real event “shellebrating” the efforts of California-based nonprofit American Tortoise Rescue. Tortoise-shell frames would take another 200 years: But it was May 23, 1784, when founding father…

News May 21, 2018

At Henry Schein, worth a Fortune and still climbing

By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s only Fortune 500 company is actually a little more Fortune-ate than it was last year – thought its success is based on anything but luck. Melville-based global distributor Henry Schein Inc. – a stalwart supplier of the medical, dental and animal health industries – claims the 238th spot in Fortune magazine’s 64th annual list of America’s largest corporations, released Monday. That’s a five-spot jump from the company’s 2017 ranking….

Newsletters May 11, 2018

No. 305: BioMentors, advanced architects and 10 of the nation’s best STEM high schools, right here on LI

And down the stretch they come: You’ve reached the finish line of another busy workweek, dear readers, and if you’d picked Good Magic to finish second, you’d have made a killing. It’s May 11 and it may be National Technology Day in India, but in the United States it’s undeniably National Twilight Zone Day, truly a dimension of sight, sound and mind. Give us your sick: Predating the United States itself, Pennsylvania Hospital – credited…

Economic Development May 10, 2018

Heavy-hitting LI BioMentor Initiative makes it official

By GREGORY ZELLER // A high-octane effort to unite regional bioentrepreneurs with qualified business mentors has formally launched – though the Long Island BioMentor Initiative is already quite busy. The LIBMI officially accepted its first program applications in a “launch event” Thursday morning at the de Seversky Mansion on the New York Institute of Technology’s Old Westbury campus. But the BioMentor Initiative is already a year into a “pilot phase,” according to founding mentor Mark…

Newsletters May 4, 2018

No. 303: On Audrey, yummy food photos, NYIT’s Long Island ambitions and May 4 in a galaxy far, far away

That’s a wrap: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the end of another busy week for the Long Island innovation economy. It’s May 4 – Memorial Day in Curaçao, Greenery Day in Japan and, here in the States, the 238th anniversary of the American Academy of Arts & Science, founded in Boston on this date in 1780. Charter members included John Adams, Samuel Adams, Samuel Phillips, Phillips Payson, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams and several men…

Startups April 16, 2018

With Patient Innovations, the wait may be over

By GREGORY ZELLER // Patient Innovations does not have modest goals. Citing a sad legacy of waiting-room delays and other gross inefficiencies costing healthcare providers both time and money, the 2013 startup is out to change the healthcare world. And if it generates a billion-dollar payday along the way, so much the better, says cofounder Ken Greenberg. Pardon Greenberg’s optimism, which may be influenced by his success as cofounder and CEO of award-winning, circa-1992, Hauppauge-based…

Newsletters April 4, 2018

No. 295: Schein spins out, Marcum surveys CEOs, FalconStor soars west, and how San Diego can save Long Island

Welcome to Wednesday: Over the hump we go, dear readers, and a special hello to new subscribers Heather, Lincoyan, Alan, Nick, Chris, Kimberly, James and Aamir. We couldn’t do it without you. Well, we could, but nobody would know. Now that you’re part of the family, drop us a line at editor@innovateli.com and tell us what you think. Story tips and calendar suggestions thrill us beyond words. Spring break: It’s April 4 out there and…

Newsletters February 23, 2018

No. 284: On plutonium, gun control and the video Q&A, with a Silicon Valley vibe

Friday on my mind: Spend your bread and lose your head, dear readers – you’ve reached another glorious (if wet) weekend. Reward yourself by checking out Eater’s list of highly binge-able TV options, the perfect cure for soggy Saturdays and soaked Sundays. Jiminy Crickets: Happy birthday, “Pinocchio.” The animated Disney classic debuted this date in 1940. Exactly one year later, at Berkeley, Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg produced plutonium. Other debuts: Real boys (and girls)…

Newsletters December 20, 2017

No. 267: On good fellows, spoon benders, Octomoms and trends to come

Welcome, dear readers: And over the year’s penultimate hump we go. Just five more days until Christmas and 11 until tumultuous 2017 runs its course. Boy, have you earned a holiday. The Innovate LI team will be catching up on baking, last-minute shopping and gift-wrapping, so watch for our next newsletter on Dec. 27. We hope you enjoy a peaceful, safe and joyous weekend! Before there was Octomom: When Nadya Suleman famously gave birth to…

M&A December 18, 2017

Holiday sale: Henry Schein snags Georgia tech firm

The world’s largest distributor of animal-health products, among other thriving interspecies healthcare verticals, has acquired a new cloud-based weapon for its business-development arsenal. Melville-based Henry Schein announced Monday the acquisition of Atlanta-based eVetPractice, a 2011 startup focused on cloud-based practice-management solutions for veterinary clinics. eVetPractice becomes the newest addition to the expanding software portfolio offered by the Henry Schein Veterinary Solutions division, which has offices in Wisconsin, Missouri and Pennsylvania and is billed by the…

Newsletters November 8, 2017

No. 256: Historic places, earning potential, winning students and will.i.am doing customer service

Good day, comrades: Take a bow this Nov. 8, dear readers, if you were around 100 years ago today, when Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took over following Russia’s October Revolution of 1917. (Just, you know … bow carefully.) Welcome new readers Ted, Joseph, Diane and Daniel, and please share your thoughts at editor@innovateli.com. Story tips, corrections and back-pats gratefully accepted. Shed no tiers for them: Heartfelt congratulations to our friends at Uniondale law firm Farrell…

Economic Development August 30, 2017

Tomorrow’s health tech to shine at LICA Capital Forum

By GREGORY ZELLER // Another intriguing combination of presenters and panelists marks the next Capital Forum on the Long Island Capital Alliance’s schedule, this one focused on the lifeblood of the Island’s innovation economy. Following a June networker centered around cybersecurity startups and a March pitch-a-thon spotlighting early-stage technology firms, the latest Capital Forum returns to healthcare, a Long Island socioeconomic cornerstone that has naturally become a go-to theme for LICA and its (roughly) quarterly…

Medical devices August 3, 2017

Digital dentistry program takes root at SBU

By GREGORY ZELLER // Break out the intraoral scanners: Stony Brook University is sinking its teeth into a groundbreaking digital dentistry curriculum. The university’s School of Dental Medicine is one of five U.S. dental schools (there are only 66 total) selected to pilot a new digital dentistry program developed by the Chicago-based American College of Prosthodontists. Stony Brook joins dental schools at the University of Kentucky, Rutgers University in New Jersey, A.T. Still University in…

News June 27, 2017

Admitting no guilt, Henry Schein settles antitrust suit

Henry Schein Inc. has bought its way out of a two-year-old antitrust lawsuit. The Melville-based global healthcare products and services distributor announced this week that it’s settled litigation brought by Arizona-based SourceOne Dental Inc. Although neither party has made an official statement about the size of the settlement, it appears to be somewhere in the $3 million range. Seeking unspecified compensation, SourceOne – self-billed as the dental industry’s “first e-commerce marketplace offering an aggregation of…

Earnings May 9, 2017

Stellar sales, tax break propel Henry Schein’s 1Q

By GREGORY ZELLER // They sure grow fast at Henry Schein Inc., where a seemingly endless expansion has led to another record quarter. Reporting Tuesday on the first quarter of its fiscal 2017, which ended April 1, the Melville-based global healthcare products and services distributor once again noted record-setting gains in quarterly sales and income, with each of its global divisions reporting shiny bottom lines. Net sales for the quarter were recorded as $2.9 billion,…