From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

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Bootstrapping a new business with limited resources

Bootstrapping a new business with limited resources

From the course: Success Stories with Dave Crenshaw

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Bootstrapping a new business with limited resources

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- Joe Landolina and his business partner turned their idea into a viable product with minimal funding using makeshift labs and resourcefulness, along the way. - [Joe] We exited that business plan competition with a wonderful idea, but no product. And so the, the product that we had or the invention that we had wasn't yet proven. And so we had a really good idea, a really good hunch that it could work. But we hadn't gotten through those motions yet. And we were kids, I was 17 years old when I started this business. My co-founder, Isaac, I think was 19 or 20. And so we had a lot to go through, in order to convert this from what was a really great idea that was able to win a business plan competition to something that could actually be used in a patient. And that took from the founding of the business in 2010 to roughly 2015, when the product was quote unquote ready. It became this very interesting pathway of iterating the product. And because usually in med device or in life sciences…

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