Describes an Israeli joint venture company, created to convert military technology to civilian uses. Also documents the explosive growth of the Israeli high-technology sector in the 1990s.

Two cofounders of a company enter into a negotiation to set the terms of a start-up in the field of laparoscopic surgery.

Lucent Technologies' New Ventures Group has created innovative ways to commercialize Bell Labs research. The success of this approach now forces the group to evaluate whether to stay inside Bell Labs or become an external venture capitalist group.

The founders of an online medical supplies firm must negotiate with an established hospital distributor and a venture capital firm.

An embryonic online medical supplies firm must negotiate a second-round funding.