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One of the keys to business success is addressing a pain point for your intended market. Aqeela Somani, founder of , knows her market카지노 게임 컬렉션s pain point well having cared for a family member who suffered from kidney failure.
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The company카지노 게임 컬렉션s Chief Design Officer, Natasha Murji, is also familiar with the journey having experienced kidney failure and having received a kidney transplant. She is the inspiration and key driver of Nephron.Health. And the third co-founder, Roger Ma, takes a different perspective. He is the Director of Client Care and Decision Support with Carefirst, where he oversees at home dialysis care. Through his work and the experience he has with kidney patients, Ma is motivated to do more. He believes health tech can help patients enjoy a better quality of life.
For Nephron.Health, the business is more than just a passion project 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the team is living the experiences themselves.
At each stage of the kidney failure process, patients face new obstacles. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s where Nephron.Health hopes to make a difference. The company offers coaching by those who have lived through the experience and provides education and guidance for those whose daily lives have undergone dramatic changes. The Nephron.Health digital companion app allows users to book and complete coaching sessions, track their progress, and insert diary entries.
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Over the late spring and early summer, Somani attended and completed QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션s Wings Acceleration program for early-stage startups. The program provides startup founders with tools and guidance to help them assess the feasibility of their business idea, validate their proposed value proposition, and begin the development of a viable business model.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The program required us to conduct interviews and research, which helped us realize that our first customers should be our end users,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Somani. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The program facilitators were able to provide many resources to help us evaluate our value statements, which we ended up revising as a result of our learnings.카지노 게임 컬렉션
As for next steps, the team sees additional options being added to the digital companion app such as medication and vitals trackers, patient health diaries, and even educational resources.
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The Wings Acceleration program is offered through the , an initiative led by Invest Ottawa in Eastern Ontario and in which Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s is a regional partner. The Scale-Up Platform Project is supported by the .