In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, an emergency medicine physician, serial HealthTech entrepreneur, author, and venture capitalist. Dr. Shufeldt tells the listeners about his early entrepreneurial journey starting multiple businesses and what he learned from those experiences. He goes on to discuss starting NextCare Urgent Care, an urgent care company with over 100 clinics in multiple states that was eventually acquired. Dr. Shufeldt also discusses his telemedicine company, MeMD, which was acquired recently by WalMart. Dr. Shufeldt is now a venture capitalist as a managing director at Xcellerant Ventures, a firm focusing on early stage healthtech and medtech startups. Dr. Shufeldt provides advice for choosing your co-founders, when to seek outside funding, proper timing and execution for scaling a business, and how to plan for an acquisition. Lastly, Dr. Shufeldt discusses his book and podcast Entrepreneur Rx and his flying experience as a longtime pilot.
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John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA
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