Are You Ready to Start Your Own Startup?

Experts on medtech startups will share their experiences during MD&M East’s Career Zone in the panel discussion, “How to Start Your Own Startup,” Thursday, June 13 at 10:00 am. Hear from these entrepreneurs: John Crombie, CEO at Centaur Sports Medical Roddi Simpson, Founder & CEO at Viozel Inc. Vivek A. Kumar, Ph.D., assistant professor in the biomedical engineering and chemical & materials engineering departments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and assistant professor of dentistry at RSDM; speaking about SAPHTx Inc., a seed stage company spun out from NJIT. How do you know if you’re ready to start your own company? “If you feel constrained where you are and want to run faster, do it,” says Simpson, who founded Viozel Inc., a tech startup that serves the medical space. “It’s better to try and fail now and know yourself better, than not to,” he tells MD+DI. “You will only know if startups are for you by going out there and doing it,” adds Crombie, founder and CEO of Centaur Sports Medicine, a company dedicated to highly disruptive products for physical performance optimization. He says it’s important to “learn how to be an entrepreneur” and “see where it takes you.â...
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