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I would say notahacker gave you some good advice. My other comments are based on knowing nothing of what you are trying to put together, just some personal ex
by davismwfl 14y ago
I would say notahacker gave you some good advice. My other comments are based on knowing nothing of what you are trying to put together, just some personal experience and some knowledge.
Having spent 7 years doing development and consulting in healthcare, you can't underestimate the cost to building and deploying products in that space. Unless it is consumer oriented, the adoption rates are slow in the enterprise space but pricing is better. It is better now than it has ever been from my knowledge, but 6 months to a year is still not out of the question on an enterprise product sales cycle. Individual physicians are also feeling squeezed so they are anxious to get new tools, but at the same time many of them are very price focused from what I have seen. I know a couple of people doing startups in healthcare and it took the better part of 6-8 months for them to get a few paying clients, so having funds saved was critical for them (as was consulting).
Also, don't underestimate how much HIPAA and FDA rules play into what you do in the health care software space. Nothing is insurmountable and honestly good common sense gets you past 80% of the rules/laws. Unless you are doing something with medical device + software, in which case the FDA clearance gets to be a pain if you have never done it. This is probably stuff you know about. Just mentioning it, as I have been through it.
My email is in my profile if you want to chat. I love the healthcare space, it is just a tough place to be without the proper team and reasonable funding or smart bootstrapping (my personal choice).
Either way, I say notahacker gave you the best advice so far, keep your day job while you get that MVP built.