Is listening your winning strategy? w/ Harsh Vathsangam

Even though the world of healthcare is slow to implement changes to tried-and-true systems, the world of healthcare technology rockets right along. For many entrepreneurs who build startups in the healthcare space, we’re expecting that quick pace, we brace for it and match it - even when slowing down might be our best option. Harsh Vathsangam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Moving Analytics and he’s here to remind us that sometimes (okay, more often than not), slowing the pace and really listening can be the key to success. When we move too fast, we can miss small details that pack a big punch - and when our company picks up on those details and puts them into play, we put our solutions at the head of the pack. On this week’s episode, learn how strategy can be both quick and thoughtful, if we simply take the time necessary to really listen to what our market, and customers, are telling us. Here are the show highlights: Two things to do when you’re thinking of forming a startup (5:47) Should you be fundraising, or gathering analyses? (10:00) How landing your first customer can break down barriers (22:22) You never know where that lead is going to come from (23:44) How listening can be your winning strategy (29:56) Crossing the chasm between early the adopter market and mainstream market (31:27) Guest Bio Harsh Vathsangam, PHD, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Moving Analytics, a digital health company out to conquer heart disease through digital prevention. His personal mission is to take technological solutions and apply them in ways that benefit people's lives. Harsh brings a broad range of expertise to the startup community, from working at the intersection of big data and mobile health all the way to technological and social innovation. If you’d like more info on Moving Analytics, you can email them at Hello@MovingAnalytics.com or contact them on Twitter at @movinganalytics. If you’d like to reach out to Harsh, you can message him via LinkedIn at Harsh Vathsangam.