Xact Medical is an institutional investor-backed medical device startup located in Springboro, Ohio. With technology exclusively licensed from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Ben Gurion University, Xact is developing a pioneering product in the field of point of care robotics – the Fast Intelligent Needle Delivery System, or FIND.
FIND is a hand-held medical robot that integrates ultrasound imaging with robotics to turn every clinician into an expert at precision needle placement, which will improve patient outcomes and save hospitals time and money. The initial target market is central vascular access, to be followed by regional anesthesiology and biopsy. With extensive market research completed to confirm product-market fit and an advanced prototype being tested and refined to final design, Xact is rapidly moving towards market entry.
OPPORTUNITY
The good news is, you don’t have to know anything about medical products or robots to thrive as our Office Manager. Our current awesome Office Manager is leaving to start her second business of her own! As a result, Xact is now seeking the right individual to be our part-time Office Manager and to grow with us as we go to market. Interested parties should contact Andrew Cothrel, CEO, at [email protected] for more information.
This role’s responsibilities are broad, touching on facility, events and meetings, travel, accounting support, quality systems support, information and infrastructure, HR, and creative/marketing support, with the opportunity to have real and direct impact and make this role your own. We are happy to share a detailed job description upon request.
A guest post by Candace Dalmagne-Rouge, Startup Grind Dayton.
Occasionally I get asked why I continue to be part of Startup Grind Dayton. After three years, I’ve been asking myself the same question.
I’ve realized so much of why I originally joined the chapter three years ago still resonates with me. Then and now, I see the impact that entrepreneurship can have on an individual, a city, and an economy – bringing innovation, prosperity, and growth at every level. I continue to feel inspired by helping make Dayton a place I want to live – telling positive stories, connecting people to resources and opportunities, and building stronger relationships.
While I renew my love for this organization, I’m looking for people who share my passion for Dayton and our entrepreneurs to join the Startup Grind Dayton team.
What is Startup Grind?
Startup Grind is a global startup community, actively educating, inspiring and connecting 3.5 million entrepreneurs in more than 525 cities. Founded in Silicon Valley, we nurture startup ecosystems in 125 countries through local and international events and partnerships with organizations like Google for Startups.
Our values are what set us apart. We believe in making friends not contacts, in giving not taking, and helping others before helping ourselves. These values are what continue to drive us in Dayton, and so many people around the world.
Join Startup Grind Dayton
Since 2015, the Startup Grind Dayton chapter has featured more than 30 successful local and national founders, innovators, educators, and investors who have shared lessons learned on the road to building great companies. They have told their authentic story and shared wisdom on topics from blockchain to being on Shark Tank to starting a brewery to using improv in business.
We’ve built a great foundation over the past three years, but we know we’re just getting started. In year four, we want to expand beyond traditional networking formats and think differently about how we educate, inspire, and connect our local entrepreneurs. Through a combination of unique experiences, authentic connections, inclusivity, and storytelling, we want to be the place where entrepreneurs belong in Dayton – the front porch to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In doing so, we’re looking for people who want to help shape and bring this vision to life. If this speaks to you, apply to join our team in Dayton. We’ll be taking applications until December 3, 2018.
If this resonates with you but you don’t live in Dayton, you can apply to open a chapter in your city and join the largest independent community of entrepreneurs.
We want to be the place where entrepreneurs belong in Dayton
At the very least, check out one of our events. Our next session is on Monday, December 17 from 5:00 p.m – 8:00 p.m where we’ll have amazing food, great conversations with Dayton entrepreneurs and a panel on rethinking the hustle mentality – perfect timing as we enter the holiday season. We can’t wait to see you. Reserve your spot at: http://bit.ly/dytdec18.
Gignite, a new workshop designed for entrepreneurs, hobbyists, and 9-to-5ers looking to break free, started in Dayton on February 26th.
Gignite is an 8-week incubator for side-gigs, passion projects, and hobbies. That provides the time, space and accountability to help you make progress on your goals while connecting with like-minded go-getters.
Dayton is the second city to host a Gignite cohort. Former Daytonian Oliva Barrow created Gignite in Madison, Wisconsin, and is expanding the idea into Dayton. AJ Ferguson, director of UpDayton, will be facilitating the session, with remote support from afar coming from Barrow.
Gignite meets for 3 hours on Monday evenings that began February 26th. The first hour is dedicated to a facilitated discussion and group bonding activity that can be more serious and practical, or sometimes more fun and creative. Each week, participants are asked to set goals and to share an update on those goals with the group. It’s super supportive, and any amount of progress is celebrated.
Carole Trone, who used the fall session in Madison to work on launching a consulting business, returned for the second Madison session.
“I knew that joining this group would push me beyond my comfort zone and allow me to engage with entrepreneurial people,” Trone said. “We hear so much buzz about the importance of innovation and building new business concepts, but much less opportunity to truly engage with this culture. Gignite has provided a good structure for moving along on my passion project and finding inspiration and support from others who are doing the same.”
Past participants have used Gignite to collaborate with team members for side-gigs, to launch freelance businesses, and to accomplish personal goals. Some of the projects past Gigniters have tackled include:
Writing a novel about a blind werewolf
Improving and practicing drawing skills
Launching a newsletter called Understanding College
Making nerdy jewelry (Mitosis earrings anyone?) and improving marketing for an Etsy site
Finishing a T-shirt quilt
Launching an eCommerce site for clothing to raise awareness about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and other health issues
The Dayton session runs from Feb. 26 to April 10 at the Nucleus (411 E. 5th St.) from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The cost is $150 up front, with a $50 refund if you make 7 out of 8 sessions (and you’re allowed one Virtual Make-Up Day, so you can technically miss 2). Some scholarships are available. Contact Olivia Barrow with questions: [email protected]. For full details, and to sign up, go to the website: www.oliviabarrow.com/gignite.
GlobalFlyte is looking for a Junior Cloud Developer
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop RESTful APIs using Java, Jersey, and EclipseLink. You will be building supporting GUIs for our back-end using Angular and AngularJS. You will be working with Git, and dependency management software and automation tools (such as Maven, NPM, and Gulp). You will be maintaining, monitoring and enhancing our existing AWS cloud architecture and services (such as S3, RDS, IAM, EC2, SQS, VPC, Route53, ELB, etc.).
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor degree in software engineering or development
Familiar with object-oriented programming and software development
Technology First is an IT industry trade association, whose goal is to “transform the Dayton region into the gold standard for the best-connected Information Technology community.” A great opportunity that is approaching is the Technology First Awards, where businesses can recognize individuals and teams exemplifying Technology First values. An individual can be nominated in the following categories:
Most Promising Startup
A technology startup that has shown great innovation and promise in the Dayton and SW Ohio region.
IT Executive of the Year
A senior level professional responsible for influencing progress and developing teams through leadership excellence.
Emerging Technology Leader
An IT professional that has exhibited excellence and technical leadership within their organization.
Best IT Services Company
An IT company that has increased its investment in the Dayton and SW Ohio region through revenue, jobs, or capacity.
Outstanding Technology Team
An IT department that has impacted the efficiency, productivity & performance of their company.
Award of Excellence – Student Project
An IT college student or team that exhibited excellence while delivering a capstone project.
Nominations are to be submitted by Friday, February 23, 2017 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018TechAwards. The Leadership Awards will be presented at the University of Dayton, Flight Deck on Thursday, May 3, 2018, from 4-6 pm.
For any questions regarding the nomination process or Technology First Awards in general, contact Marcia Albers at [email protected].
Global Legal Hackathon, an event hosted in dozens of cities across the world, will be coming to 444 E Second Street on February 23rd. The Dayton Legal Hackathon is a 54-hour event with the goal of building a product that could help the legal industry and is sponsored by CuroLegal, Mile 2, and Wright Brothers Institute. Dayton is one of 11 cities in the United States taking part in the event and is joining major tech hubs like San Francisco, New York, and Seattle in hosting a local event.
Hackathon’s follow a simple model but have been known to create some incredible products and features, ranging from GroupMe to the Facebook “like” button. The event begins with attendees pitching their ideas and then organizing themselves into groups for the weekend based on the idea they most want to work on. The best groups typically include a cross-section of experts in their fields and new people willing to push themselves. For this event, teams may include lawyers, business professionals, tech experts, marketers, and developers, among others. This is also a great opportunity for students looking to gain real experience and network with career lawyers and developers.
At the end of the event, groups will pitch their product idea to a panel, similar to ABC’s Shark Tank. The winning group will be given the opportunity to advance to the second round in New York City.
Although the competition may sound fun, this is an opportunity to major build your community. Participants will be able to be an entrepreneur for 54 hours (maybe more if the product has legs) and expose themselves to a vast field of experts, making the event a great networking and hiring opportunity.
“This is truly a career-changing experience.” Said Dave Best, one of the founders of the Dayton event and Director of Innovation at Mile 2. Dave, a serial hackathon organizer, said he got the idea to bring hackathons to Dayton a few years ago after attending the Columbus Startup Weekend and saw the level of community engagement and ideas. He says that participants will be able to, “Create new skills with this opportunity.”
The event will begin on Friday February 23rd at 4:00PM and will run until about 10:00PM. Saturday will go from 9:00AM to 10:00PM and Sunday will run from 9:00AM to around 5:00PM. Participants are encouraged to stay the whole time to get the full experience. Food will be provided throughout the event.
Interested in sponsoring or attending this event? Visit their website at http://daytonlegalhack.com and click on the registration page.
Did you know that healthcare is the most hacked vertical with the highest number of data breaches? That the ECRI Institute ranked ransomware and cybersecurity threat as #1 Health Tech Hazard for 2018? Or that the Department of Homeland Security has declared healthcare as the most targeted and susceptible of the 11 critical US infrastructures?
With increasing connectivity, the ransomware events in healthcare are on the rise. Bad actors hack into hospital networks to hold critical patient data hostage or control patient care systems, knowing that providers are more likely to submit to their demands – ransomware! Most hospital boards have made cybersecurity as an ongoing board agenda item!
Thus, local startup MediTech Safe was born. Pranav Patel, one of the founders, has spent half of the decade at GE Healthcare managing their services portfolio in North America. This is when he had a chance to see the Internet of Medical Things (IoT) trend in works and understand both opportunities and challenges.
The ACA, HITECH, Meaningful Use, etc. have led healthcare providers scrambling to connect various systems together to benefit from all that connected healthcare IT (or the IoT trend in healthcare) has to offer. The full potential of IoT in healthcare is expected to yield $60B of value in the US. Various studies suggest that connecting medical devices (i.e. IV pumps, vital sign monitors, ventilator, etc.) to Electronic Medical/Health Records (EMR/EHR) system could release up to 8% of nurses’ capacity from administrative tasks such as charting data; it also helps prevent about 800 human data entry centric errors daily in a typical hospital.
At the core of the IoT framework sits connectivity and clinical network. For example, many healthcare professionals could receive alerts on patient conditions via clinical applications on their personal mobile devices. The effectiveness of telemedicine also relies heavily on connectivity and clinical networks. Could you imagine what would happen if the critical network were to be down or important patient data didn’t reach healthcare professionals on time and in a format needed?
These events could have significant patient safety concerns, and recent surveys and studies have proven that such events continue to occur. Today’s clinical and medical device networks face many challenges starting from medical device interoperability, frequent device patches and upgrades, wireless proliferation, mobile device management and resultant cybersecurity threats.
Medical devices serve as the weakest link in the security chain. While most people familiar with the topic recognize the challenge, there is a significant amount of confusion among providers, medical device manufacturers, software system providers, regulators, etc. in terms of who is responsible for what let alone quickly developing a robust solution. The situation is so critical that a bill is recently introduced into the Senate to address this confusion, named “Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act.”
To further complicate the matter, there are skills gaps and confusion around roles and responsibilities within a hospital on this topic. While IT team members understand cybersecurity of IT devices, they lack a full understanding of medical devices and their operations, often referred as Operational Technology (OT). They are also not comfortable dealing with medical devices because of the associated patient safety concerns/liabilities At the same time, the clinical engineering team that understands medical devices and their operations (OT) well feels less skilled with IT matters. In many organizations, these two teams even report into different functions with different priorities.
Patel believes that the MediTech safe is the solution to these issues. “We saw this as an opportunity to develop our holistic Medical Devices Cybersecurity Risk Management software platform for providers and launched MediTechSafe. Our solution addresses the challenges mentioned above and also brings various stakeholders together in an efficient and effective manner. Our team members have years of experience working in clinical engineering, IT security and medical devices field. We have just finished our 1st generation product and working on piloting it. There is nothing more rewarding than building a company that keeps our communities safe and also creates high-end jobs.”
To learn more about MediTech Safe, visit their website to learn more and request a demo!
The struggle to get back into the groove after the holidays wasn’t real enough for you? The time to begin thinking about hiring summer interns is right around the corner, and the Department of Labor just flipped the script on whether those interns have to be paid.
How’s that for a jolt of reality?? Do we have your attention? Good! Because this is probably a good thing for most companies and entrepreneurs.
Where the 2010 Obama Era rules required each one of the six factors must be met in order to avoid paying interns, the new rules are more relaxed. Unlike before, employers need not prove all of the elements, and no single factor is determinative. Thus, the assessment of whether an intern should be paid is left to the facts of a particular case. These new factors are:
The extent to which the intern and the employer clearly understand that there is no expectation of compensation. Any promise of compensation, express or implied, suggests that the intern is an employee—and vice versa.
The extent to which the internship provides training that would be similar to that which would be given in an educational environment, including the clinical and other hands-on training provided by educational institutions
The extent to which the internship is tied to the intern’s formal education program by integrated coursework or the receipt of academic credit
The extent to which the internship accommodates the intern’s academic commitments by corresponding to the academic calendar
The extent to which the internship’s duration is limited to the period in which the internship provides the intern with beneficial learning
The extent to which the intern’s work complements, rather than displaces, the work of paid employees while providing significant educational benefits to the intern
The extent to which the intern and the employer understand that the internship is conducted without entitlement to a paid job at the conclusion of the internship
Since every company’s circumstances are different, your individual mileage may vary. We strongly encourage you to get together with your operations and legal team to map out your plans for spring and summer hiring.
Good luck!!
Craig Saunders is a full life-cycle recruiter, providing high-level strategic direction and consultation for both clients and candidates in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Information Technology. He specializes in guiding candidates and clients through all aspects of the recruitment process. His clients range in size from small firms to large Fortune 500 companies.
What’s on my mind today: How quickly things change. Just because the world worked one way in the past or even now, doesn’t mean it will look like that in the future. A lesson the movie “You’ve Got Mail” reminded me of.
What brought this to mind was a podcast I was listening to. The podcast was about movies that were made in 90s and 2000s that seem crazy now because of how the world has changed. An example they used that stuck with me was the movie “You’ve Got Mail”.
For those that don’t remember the plot here is quick synopsis from (all-knowing) Google: Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous Internet romance, oblivious to each other’s true identity. Eventually, Joe learns that the enchanting woman he’s involved with is actually his business rival. He must now struggle to reconcile his real-life dislike for her with the cyber love he’s come to feel.
Now we all know that Foxbooks is meant to represent big box bookstores like Barnes & Nobles and Borders Books. In 1998, big box stores were putting more and more mom and pop stores out of business. This plot made total sense in 1998, but just 10 short years later, the landscape looks totally different. Borders Books is out of business and Barnes & Nobles is struggling under the weight of Amazon.
What about those mom & pop/indie bookstores? They are thriving. Between 2009 and 2015, small bookstores have grown by 35%! The part of the industry that was once on the ropes, is now enjoying success.
Why? Because they focused on something technology like Amazon cannot provide: A sense of community and connectivity. They are becoming where neighbors can meet, and customers can support a local small business.
The takeaway? Don’t let the past or even the present distort your core values. Put the customer at the center. Always be asking “how can I delight my customer?” Sure, there will be serious storms, but if you are constantly focused on bringing a disproportionate amount of value to the customer, you will win in the end.
GlobalFlyte, a Dayton, Ohio based company whose mission is to provide unparalleled service to first responders through innovative technology solutions has partnered with the City of Fairborn to install its communication, mapping and smart phone technologies in the City’s Dispatch Center.
“The City of Fairborn is a City in Motion and we consistently seek innovative and strategic technology partners that can help us all do our jobs more efficiently while continuing to provide outstanding services to our constituents. We welcome the GlobalFlyte team and look forward to working with them”, said Fairborn City Manager, Rob Anderson.
“With this new technology suite we can improve incident situational awareness and compliment real-world decision-making. We look forward to running this suite of technologies through its paces to really see what it can do,” said Terry Barlow, Fairborn Police Chief.
Globalflyte’s team of seasoned public safety professionals bring a unique understanding of and passion for identifying solutions by developing and integrating communication comprehension technologies borne out of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) with commercially developed mapping, imaging and smart phone technologies. This integration creates a unique robust sit
uational awareness solution for our local government public safety users responding to emergency and crisis incidents. These technologies can also support public works and economic development departments through a tethered drone and unique imaging and mapping applications.
“We provide cloud-hosted and easily deployable solutions to first responders, to help clear the fog of chaos by giving the commander tools to make enhanced decisions to protect life and property. We are extremely proud to be working with the city to find tools and solutions that fit the varied needs Fairborn’s Police and Fire, Public Works and Economic Development Departments,” said Tim Shaw, GlobalFlyte President and COO.
GlobalFlyte brings revolutionary capabilities to incident response management. Cost-effective, easy to deploy, and scalable to meet small and large departmental needs, this suite of services on a single platform will change the way your department responds to and manages emergency events. To find out more, please visit www.globalflyte.com.
uational awareness solution for our local government public safety users responding to emergency and crisis incidents. These technologies can also support public works and economic development departments through a tethered drone and unique imaging and mapping applications.
