Keys To Creating Value for Early-Stage Medical Device Companies
Executive Summary
Small cap firms that reach a successful exit via M&A tend to share a set of chacteristics that enable significant value creation. Start-ups can use them as a template to gauge their own potential for success. Indeed, those characteristics, which include the development of a novel, best-in-breed technology with significant clinical impact, having a set of products that deliver a competitive edge, and careful execution of their respective business plans (including managing capital and timelines), can serve as a template for early-stage medical device companies, and help define the parameters necessary for them to engineer their way towards an outcome that maximizes value.
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