5 Foundations Every Physician Founder Needs to Launch a Healthcare Startup

5 Foundations Every Physician Founder Needs to Launch a Healthcare Startup

April 1, 2026 · 30 min · Season 2 · Episode 61

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Dr. Alison Curfman outlines the essential foundations for physician founders to successfully launch healthcare startups.

You already know what’s broken in healthcare. The question is—do you know how to build something that actually fixes it? In this solo episode, Dr. Alison Curfman breaks down the 5 foundations every physician founder needs to go from clinical insight → startup launch. After co-founding a company that scaled to 100,000 patients, raising over $100M across ventures, and working inside private equity evaluating healthcare startups, Alison shares the exact frameworks most physicians were never taug...

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