This document provides a to-do list and advice for healthtech entrepreneurs. It emphasizes developing an entrepreneurial mindset focused on seeing opportunities rather than problems. Entrepreneurs should lead innovation through vision rather than management, and look for opportunities where there are gaps in the healthcare value chain and customers willing to pay. They should also focus on building the right team through networking and filling skill positions, learn from failures, and think big but start small with their innovations.

1. HEALTHTECHNOPRENEUR
TO DO LIST
Arlen Meyers, MD,MBA
University of Colorado School of Medicine and
Business School
Society of Physician Entrereneurs

2. INNOVATION STARTS
WITH MINDSET
Half empty or half full?
Challenges or
opportunities?
Taking personal
responsibility for failure
and learning
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3. LEAD INNOVATORS, DON’T
MANAGE INNOVATION
Leaderpreneurship is about vision, direction and
inspiration either from the front or the back
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4. WHAT IT TAKES
Means
Motive
Opportunity
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ND

5. LOOK IN THE MIRROR: MEANS
DO YOU HAVE AN ENTREPRENEURIAL
MINDSET?

6. MAKE IT PERSONAL: MOTIVE
But, don’t take it personally
Face your childhood demons

7. AT FIRST, BE A PROBLEM
SEEKER: OPPORTUNITY
Not a problem solver
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8. PICK YOUR SPOT
Roles
Holes
Goals
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9. UNDERSTAND THE LAY OF THE
LAND
Look for gaps and opportunities in
the value chain
Who is willing and able to pay for
what?
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10. FAIL IT, NAIL
IT, SCALE IT,
SALE IT
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11. FILL THE SKILL POSITIONS
With some people on the bench
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12. LOOK FOR THE CLUES
Not the roadmap
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13. PRACTICE
INNOVATOR
DNA
EXPRESSION
AND
MINDSET
CONNECT EXPERIMENT OBSERVE
QUESTION ASSOCIATE

14. KNOW WHEN TO PULL THE
PLUG
Learn from your inevitable failures
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15. PRACTICE SEEING AROUND
CORNERS
Look
Connect the dots
React
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16. NEVER WORK
WITH PEOPLE
YOU DON’T
TRUST
You will pay now or
later at a higher
price

17. AVOID
CRANIORECTAL
INVERSION
SYNDROME
Complacency kills

18. THINK BIG,
START SMALL
And, stay small,
increasingly making
yourself disappear

19. LOOKING FOR
MONEY?
TAM
TEAM
TRACTION
TIME
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20. QUESTIONS?
Arlen.Meyers@ucdenver.edu or
Linkedin