The Internet's Lost Generation

Executive Summary

The Internet, by offering huge on-line catalogs and instant connectivity to thousands of product companies, could significantly level the playing field between large and small companies buy creating a direct link between product suppliers and their ultimate customer, the hospital. That is, if there are any small medical device firms left in the future. It has never been harder for device start-ups to raise money. Money that would have gone to seed devices is now going to Internet companies.