I'm in the 41st month of a Health IT startup and I'd be happy to give you a preview of the questions you havent even thought of :)
Honestly if you can't fund full speed (dev, QA, support, sales, mktg, ops, clinical studies) for a minimum three years before the first hospital sale, assuming you are selling to hospitals, then get out now.
I'll spare the HN community self promotion, but I am worker bee and other roles at a few startups. Interestingly enough, Salesforce (CloudAmp's specialty) is being used in hospitals! scary, eh.
Hi rficcaglia, I would like to buy you a pint, or lunch, or coffee or something. Are you in the Silicon Valley area? Your email is not listed, but mine is. I am interested in natural language processing and machine learning in the medical field. Would you know anything about this?
How do you find your sales lead? Specifically, my question is how do you identify a potential sale target? Is it through your connections. call calls or online ads?
Publish peer reviewed journal abstracts with data showing efficacy --- yes for software, not only for devices. Then present data at major conferences (though, you cannot be a presenter directly as it conflicts with vendor conflict of interest restrictions).
Honestly if you can't fund full speed (dev, QA, support, sales, mktg, ops, clinical studies) for a minimum three years before the first hospital sale, assuming you are selling to hospitals, then get out now.
Happy to shar war stories over a pint!