Start-Ups Assess New Hurdle; Bay State’s Smaller Medical Device Firms See Excise Tax Draining Money Needed For Growth

Boston Globe -- WESTFORD — BioBehavioral Diagnostics Co. raised millions of dollars in venture capital and invested heavily in its technology to get its medical device to market. Now, with revenues just beginning to roll in, the six-year-old start-up faces another hurdle as it reaches for success: a new federal tax that will take a cut of every sale it makes.