Once You Are Inside: 5 Things Clinician Leaders Need to Know about Startups
Episode Description
What do clinician leaders in healthcare startups need to navigate once the offer is signed? In part two of this solo mini series, host and startup leader Helen Tanner walks through the five things that matter after you join: the first weeks, the first six months, and the first year inside a healthcare startup.
She explains how to figure out whether you were hired to build or to learn, how to size clinical infrastructure to the company's stage instead of rebuilding your old health system, why your license is a separate entity from the company and how to protect it, how to navigate the built-in tension between the mission and the money, and why maintaining your professional identity outside the company is the smartest career protection there is.
For each of the five topics, Helen shares a practical next step, a question to ask, or a resource to use.
Together with part one, this completes the full list: 10 Things Every Clinician Should Know Before and After Joining a Startup.
Get the complete list in The Early Hires Clinician Startup Field Guide, free when you sign up at www.theearlyhires.com. You will also be signed up for The Early Hires monthly newsletter, with insights, updates, and best practices for leading inside healthcare startups.
In this episode:
- How to know whether your job is to build the first version or learn the existing machine
- Why matching your speed to the company's stage protects your runway and your credibility
- The clinical infrastructure floor no company should operate without, for care delivery and for product companies
- How to protect your license when the company's risk tolerance is not yours
- What tail coverage is and why one question about it can be worth tens of thousands of dollars
- How to hold the safety baseline when mission and money pull in different directions
- Five ways to keep your career bigger than any one company
Resources mentioned:
- The Early Hires Clinician Startup Field Guide: 10 Things Every Clinician Should Know Before and After Joining a Startup, free at https://www.theearlyhires.com/
- Part one of this series, Five Things Every Clinician Should Know Before Joining a Healthcare Startup: https://www.theearlyhires.com/post/five-things-every-clinician-should-know-before-joining-a-healthcare-startup-with-helen-tanner-pa-c
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