Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO at Nimble Science. The PhD Founder

In a recent Between Meetings episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO at Nimble Science. We discussed the role of a PhD in running a startup, Sabina's unique expertise, her initial experience with startups, and why Calgary is an excellent location to start your business.

Takeaways:

• Any startup founder who is thinking about the salary is not a true startup founder.
• A PhD does not necessarily make a great startup founder.
• Entrepreneurship has become significantly more challenging due to the high expectations investors have.
• Intellectual property and regulatory expertise are valuable skillsets to bring into entrepreneurship.
• IP and regulatory are the most diametrically opposed thought processes 
• In IP, you argue that you are different from everybody else. In regulatory, you argue that you are the same as everyone else.
• Speed is crucial; you have to move quickly. Every hour counts.

Sabina Bruehlmann has twenty years of medical technology commercialization experience in developing and managing mature IP strategies, obtaining regulatory clearances for novel products, establishing workable quality systems, innovating and managing successful R&D programs including clinical trials, setting up small-scale regulated manufacturing, and raising funds.

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