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How to Build a Healthcare Startup

Up and Running

You and your team must know how to think about problems from new angles and adapt to changing market and customer demands. Of course, you will need a killer product—but, you will also need a competent growth strategy that will encompass comprehensive marketing, sales, research and development, technology, and beyond.

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Swedish Immigrant Helps Reinvent the Mouthguard Industry

Hearpreneur

In addition we have a fantastic marketing team and a sales team that are successfully plugging away every day, many many hours. The science team is funded by an SBIR grant from NSF and we are very proud to be among the few companies in the country that actually have been funded.

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I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

Steve Blank

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. It’s hard, there are lots of other demands on their time, etc. The experience is demanding but time and again we have seen I-Corps teams transform their business assumptions.

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