How to Identify and Cultivate Early-stage Product Ideas with Dr. Nishi Viswanathan

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Dr. Nishi Viswanathan is the Director of Texas Health Catalyst, a program inside Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin that provides researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs customized guidance on product development from industry and clinical experts as well as milestone-based seed funding. In this episode Nishi shares the problems that needed to be solved, the vetting process new ideas go through, what financial and non-financial resources are available, the importance of clinicians and engineers working together, and how industry experts are utilized as advisors to help fill in the gaps.
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• Nishi Viswanathan, MD LinkedIn
• Texas Health Catalyst
• Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Nishi's background (00:02:03)

3. Texas Health Catalyst (00:09:12)

4. Submitting ideas (00:17:44)

5. Vetting process (00:24:55)

6. The business knowledge gap (00:29:07)

7. Founding a company or not (00:32:51)

8. Characteristics of successful applicants (00:49:35)

9. Vision for Texas Health Catalyst (00:51:01)

10. Key take-aways (00:56:01)