Upcoming Health & Brain Fitness events

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 15, 2009 |

Here are some upcom­ing events I will par­tic­i­pate in — feel free to leave a com­ment below or con­tact us if you will be attend­ing too and want to say Hel­lo. I real­ly enjoy meet­ing Sharp­Brains read­ers! » Jan­u­ary 22nd, Con­sumer Reports’ Blog­ger Health Sum­mit, NYC. » March 5th, New York Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine, NYC. I…

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Brain Gyms a new industry?

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 7, 2009

The Cal­gary Har­ald and oth­er Cana­di­an papers bring a good arti­cle: ‘Brain gyms’ a new indus­try I’d only add that the rev­enue fig­ures sug­gest we are real­ly talk­ing about a high­­­ly-dynam­ic and grow­ing “baby-mar­ket”, which one day (hope­ful­ly, soon enough for all of us to ben­e­fit) will mature to become a real “indus­try”.  We see…

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Top 30 Brain Health and Fitness Articles of 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 23, 2008

Here you have Sharp­Brains’ 30 most pop­u­lar arti­cles, ranked by the num­ber of peo­ple who have read each arti­cle in 2008. Please note that, since the first arti­cle already includes most of our most pop­u­lar brain teasers, we have exclud­ed teasers from the rest of the rank­ing. (If those 50 are not enough for you, you…

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The Brain Fitness/ Training Market: An Executive Summary

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 7, 2008

Over the next weeks we are going to be shar­ing the Exec­u­tive Sum­ma­ry of our mar­ket report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008 with mem­bers and clients of sev­er­al part­ner orga­ni­za­tions (the British Colum­bia Seniors Liv­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, where I will be speak­ing this Thurs­day, Neu­rotech Reports, where I will speak on October…

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Wellness Coaching for Brain Health and Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008 |

We just received this quote of how a major health sys­tem is using our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report: “At Sut­ter Health Part­ners we rec­og­nize the impor­tance of brain health and how much the health of the brain and the body are inter­de­pen­dent.  The mar­ket report helped us fur­ther tar­get our coach­ing efforts to inte­grate brain…

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Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 6, 2008 |

The August issue of Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Jour­nal brings a very good piece on the emerg­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware  (also called “neu­rosoft­ware”) cat­e­go­ry: – Mind Games (sub­scrip­tion required) – Dakim, Lumos Labs, Posit Sci­ence and oth­er brain fit­ness star­tups are start­ing to gain mind share and cap­i­tal from ven­ture firms. The reporter and I spoke as Lumos…

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