Berlin Heart: Starting Over

After cutting his teeth on heart pump technology at re-start Impella, Rolf Kaese thought he had found the perfect vehicle to build a ventricular assist device business at Berlin Heart. But now Kaese is starting over and so is Berlin Heart after a falling out between the two, in a tale that's an object lesson to anyone who's ever had to begin again.

by David Cassak

There are no second acts in life, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said. But in business there are lots of second...

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