S1E6: How 3 Dropouts Got Funding From Cuban to Reinvent EKGs

Published: July 2, 2018, 3:32 a.m.

b'"We had 8 people staying in a two bedroom apartment . . . It was one of the most difficult times we had to go through . . . but that\'s how we banded together to start off our new company"\\n\\nIn this episode I interview Ohio State dropout Emannuel Setegn on how he and his friends Piyush and Vineet developed a device (high resolution magnetocardiogram) that images the heart in a manner more useful than EKGs.\\n\\nLearn:\\n-How Piyush and team spotted a gap in current scientific capabilities that was transferring over to the medical world\\n-How Piyush and team raised their initial $125k\\n-How Piyush and team raised their next $265k\\n-What team did with initial funding\\n-"It would take days to analyze one research paper"\\n-60 hour work weeks\\n-Why nothing is a deal until its done on paper\\n-Beware of greedy VC\'s\\n-How the team secured funding from Mark Cuban\\n-Why you shouldn\'t be afraid of the FDA as a medical device entrepreneur\\n-Why you need to convince your investors the FDA is not scary\\n-Genetesis.com'