EP229: One Core Skill All Successful Start-up Teams Possess, With Alex Fair, Managing Partner at MedStartr Ventures and CEO of MedStartr

The One Core Skill All Successful Health Start-up Teams Possess, With Alex Fair (EP229)

Spoiler: It's Listening. Episode 229.

It's a tough world out there for health start-ups — finding a customer is tough, financial models are tough to figure out, and operationalizing is tough, and the same is true for the health care stakeholders trying to purchase and implement what those start-ups build. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Alex Fair, managing partner at MedStartr Ventures and CEO of MedStartr, about the one skill that separates successful start-up teams from the rest.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ Why everything is easier for health start-ups within a supportive community — feedback, mentorship, networking, and moral support all included

✅ How MedStartr functions as a community for health tech entrepreneurs while also providing venture capital to crowdsourced contest winners

✅ Why listening, more than any technical or business skill, is the core competency Alex Fair sees across every successful start-up team

WHY THIS MATTERS

It would be easy to assume the differentiator for a successful health start-up is a killer financial model or slick technology. Alex Fair's answer — listening — is a reminder that start-ups building for health care succeed or fail based on how well they actually hear what customers, patients, and stakeholders need, not just how well they pitch what they've already built.

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