Announcing the new MassDevice: A note to our readers, sponsors and supporters

A few years ago, MassDevice co-founder and executive editor Brad Perriello tacked up a printed email I sent him in the fall of 2007, with the subject line “The device wire.” I was gung ho about an idea I had for a website called MassDevice, a sort of new media outlet that would cover the medical device industry in Massachusetts. I was pretty enthusiastic, noting in the email that it would be a good opportunity for us. We met more than 10 years ago in graduate school at Boston University and made a pact to help each other advance our careers in journalism. As with most of our interactions over the years, my enthusiasm in the fall of 2007 was instantly leavened by a typical sober dose of reality from Brad, who said he was interested in examining the idea more closely but wasn’t ready to commit. We’re still driving the idea behind that first email, fueled by that same combination of enthusiasm and reality. Today MassDevice is a global news presence for the medical device industry that, if you don’t mind a little boasting, changed the news game for this incredible industry. Before MassDevice you couldn’t find consistent, reliable coverage of breaking business news about the medtech industry. Today it’s all over the place, in no small part because of the model we pioneered. We took on some mammoth competitors, earned their respect and watched as they changed their games to compete with us. Being disruptive is an amazing thing, but it has its limits. As we’ve grown ...
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