Accelerating Health Tech Startup Growth
Bridging the gap between innovation and adoption in hospitals & health systems
Breaking through in healthcare is hard
Sales cycles in hospitals and health systems are long and complex. Avoid common pitfalls.
Don't waste time chasing the wrong contacts
Don't let your message get lost in translation
Don't fumble your pitch, projections, or pilot
Scale Faster
You’ve brought your product to market and secured funding. Now scaling is your top priority. Health Forward is at your side to accelerate your growth.
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Do you need access to decision makers inside hospitals and health systems?
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Do you want to structure win-win deals and get to yes?
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Is it critical to design pilots and implementations that quickly show value, and control your burn rate?
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Is your goal to convert successful launches into larger and longer engagements?
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If yes, lets begin!
Guiding Growth
Navigating health systems requires deep understanding of the industry. Health Forward helps you capitalize on your customers' strategic needs to land deals, design successful implementations and accelerate your growth.
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As a hospital COO with strategy executive experience, I’ve been on the other side of the table. Now I'm on yours, helping you meet your business goals in the health system landscape.​
Partnerships
We work with all aspects of the health tech startup community. If you want to accelerate growth - let's connect
Large Startups - rapid growth phase, $3M+ annual revenue
Focused on scaling - Expert hospital executive on your team to guide partnerships, drive growth, inform strategies, optimize cost structure and key performance indicators for clients, and advise future products based on industry trends
Venture Funds
Able to scale services across multiple portfolio companies or focus on individual company needs
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Insider knowledge of product-market fit leading to connections with ideal targets
Access to multidisciplinary team of industry experts to answer your niche specific questions
Early-Stage Startups - $1M to $3M annual revenue
Focused on increasing your number of clients and recurring revenue - Executive advisor across the growth continuum to translating industry needs into resonant communication strategies, able to advise structure of deals, pilots/implementations, and turn clients into sustainable partners
Accelerators & Incubators
For the earliest stage startups, and the organizations that support them, we have services to meet your needs too!
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Connect to learn more.
Getting Started:
Simple steps to move your company forward
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Deep Dive
(learn)
We seek to understand the details of your products in order to inform future recommendations and strategies
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Develop Strategies
(plan)
Based on your immediate and long-term needs, we leverage deep industry knowledge and connections to create actionable strategies, tactics, and recommendations
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Deploy & Execute
(do)
We take our understanding of your company, collaborative planning, and our industry expertise to rapidly execute and move the needle. From positioning, to qualified leads, to optimizations, we get it done.
Meet Frank Sawyer
Experience: As an executive leader in hospitals and health systems for 13+ years, I understand their inner workings, and how your product(s) intersect with them. We will use this knowledge to accelerate your growth and bridge the gap.
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Persona: I am a husband, father, son, brother and friend. Each of these personas inform my approach, as I bring my authentic self to partnerships and relationships.
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Values: I believe in team-based collaboration rooted in mutual respect. With a highly communicative and relationship-based style, I break down silos and insert diverse multidisciplinary perspectives to get to the best approaches and solutions.
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