Rush Bartlett

Rush is a serial entrepreneur who has previously started multiple healthcare technology companies; two have been acquired, one failed, and one is growing with 20-plus employees. He was previously Chief Product Officer at Lansinoh Laboratories, a women’s health company, and also serves as the associate director for corporate education at Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign. He received the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award in 2019 and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 2017.

Specialties: Health care, biodesign, intellectual property, venture and angel investing, corporate structures and stock, health care and retail sales, biomedical engineering and materials

Ask me about:

  • Patents and licensing, company formation, fundraising strategy, addressing the right problems/needs 
  • Health care-related questions from technology, workflow, or regulatory questions (device, service, software, or pharma/biotech-related)
  • Startup-related (even outside of health care) sales marketing and commercial strategy, founder issues and stock, tax treatment and incentives
  • Investor strategies — VC and angels
  • Corporate partnerships and sponsored research — relationships with all key people in nearly every Fortune 500 medtech company
  • Anything throughout the startup journey from initial formation to series B fundraising <$20M

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