Author: Tiger Buford

  “Tiger can jumpstart your R&D pipeline.” Tiger is a business-focused Technology Leader with a proven track record of bringing Orthopedic technology to life.  Tiger Buford has created hundreds of millions...

By now you have heard of the acquisition of Ellipse Technologies by NuVasive for 10 X sales. This was a big one for our industry and a good benchmark for all growing startups. People have asked me to write about the...

2 Questions about choosing the right recruiting method After writing  Hiring is better with a Retained Recruiter, I received a lot of questions on when to use a Contingency recruiter and when to use a Retained recruiter for a...

I’m an Engineer with gray hair.  I worked in Product Development at six different orthopedics/spine companies over three decades. During this period, I have worked with hundreds of talented engineers.  I have witnessed poor...

LAST UPDATE – Discontinued   PAT. NO. Title 1 9,814,601 Bi-directional fixating/locking transvertebral body screw/intervertebral cage stand-alone constructs 2 9,814,599 Inter-body implantation system and method 3 9,814,598...