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Badger Medical Collar Founder Shares Updates About the Startup

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Badger Medical Collar Founder Shares Updates About the Startup

May 04 2018 Innovation Destination: Hartford Startups 0 comments Tags: Badger Medical Collar, Connecticut startups, CT, CT startup, CTNext, innovation, medical device

Where Are They Now? Follow Up with Badger Medical Collar

Innovation Destination Hartford spoke with Badger Medical Collar Founder Timothy Andrew Kussow in October 2016, when the startup was called Bariatric Collar LLC (read the interview: CT Startup Provides Innovative EMS Solution).

At the time, the startup was in its early stages doing research to find out how to license and/or manufacture options for the Bariatric Immobilization/Extrication Collar. IDH recently checked in with Tim to find out what’s new.

INNOVATION DESTINATION HARTFORD: Give us an update.

TIM KUSSOW: Since we last spoke, I branded the collar as Badger Medical Collar. I also acquired a line of credit (LOC) and the product is now available for sale.

IDH: Have you experienced any major pivots since we featured your story?

TIM: Yes, the product was originally geared toward bariatric patients. It now goes beyond just bariatric patients and can be used in many situations to aid in maintaining a neutral cervical spine position when spinal motion restriction is indicated.

Watch a video to learn more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRrM25nbZ8

 

IDH: Have you been involved with any startup resources in the region?

TIM: I was one of 10 finalists at a CTNext Entrepreneur Innovation Awards event in 2016.

Also, in October 2016, I appeared on the Pulse of the Region, a weekly broadcast by the MetroHartford Alliance, along with Medframe LLC Founder Elizabeth Pouya and Innovation Destination Hartford Website Curator Nan Price.

IDH: How are you building a customer base?

TIM: Slowly. I’ve been working on advertising and marketing.

IDH: What’s the best advice you’ve either given or received?

TIM: My best advice is to trust your gut and keep pushing forward.

IDH: What does being entrepreneurial mean to you?

TIM: Pushing my dream and passion to get this life-saving device out to the EMS world.

IDH: As an entrepreneur, how do you prevent burnout?

TIM: Finding new positives and goals to reach!

IDH: What’s next?

TIM: We’re exhibiting at the International Emergency Medical Service Conference (EMS PRO) Expo, May 30 through June 2, 2018 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT.

Learn more about Badger Medical Collar

READ: Innovation Destination Hartford interview with Founder Tim Kussow
VISIT: www.badgermedicalcollar.com
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Avitus Orthopaedics Receives Award at Innovation Summit

December 01 2015 Innovation Destination: Hartford Awards 0 comments Tags: entrepreneurship, innovation, medical device, startup success, startups, technology

AvitusOrthoBlue-officialAvitus Orthopaedics, Inc. received the Most Promising Medical Device Company award at the ninth annual Innovation Summit. The event brings together tech-based entrepreneurs, investors, business executives and service providers and provides a place for them to network and connect to the resources they need.

Innovation Summit Award winner Neil Shah, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Avitus Orthopaedics told Innovation Destination: Hartford about his company and its plans for the future.

IDH: When and why did you start your company?

SHAH: Avitus Orthopaedics was founded in 2011 after Maxim Budyansky (who is the other co-founder) and I completed graduate school at Johns Hopkins University.

The unmet clinical need that we initially set out to solve was brought to us by the founding clinical team, three spine surgeons at Johns Hopkins who we met during clinical rotations as part of our graduate program. The clinical team has helped define the problem, develop a solution and test the product as part of ongoing commercialization activities.

In addition, since the inception of the company, the team continues to investigate and analyze additional unmet clinical needs that can be solved with new cutting-edge technologies developed at Avitus.

IDH: What products or services does your company offer?

SHAH: The company’s flagship product is the AvitusTM Bone Harvester, which is a surgical instrument that enables orthopaedic and spine surgeons to collect bone graft and bone marrow in a simple, streamlined and minimally invasive manner. This medical device has the potential to shape the current $2.8 billion bone graft industry and provide surgeons with a gold-standard bone graft option for their patients to maximize the quality of clinical outcomes while decreasing healthcare costs.

IDH: What’s your company’s greatest challenge?

SHAH: The company’s greatest challenge is always the challenge it is currently facing. We are strong proponents of learning from others’ past lessons, which is why we have focused a great deal of effort on surrounding ourselves with extremely smart and successful advisors who have faced many of the challenges that we are currently facing and will continue to face.

IDH: Where do you see your company in the next three to five years?

SHAH: Our vision is to develop a technology platform based upon our core technology that can address an array of unmet clinical needs facing our society today.

IDH: Any advice for entrepreneurs or startup business owners?

SHAH: The path between where you are now and where you want to go is not a straight line. Every entrepreneur starts out with a very clear vision of success, but as they start executing, they get pummeled with outside forces that interfere with their plans.

Many of these outside forces can be foreseen, planned for and prevented; but many of these forces are unpredictable and unpreventable. The successful entrepreneur is not the one who is able to plan the best, but the one who is able to change the plans quickly to navigate the barrage of obstacles they will face.

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