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Demian Entrekin

CEO, SplitStep

blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/ppm
Oakland, California, United States

Business owner, Investor
Member since September 05, 2007

VEQ: PM-SM-TM

"First we have to understand the problem" -- G. Polya, "How to Solve it." Quote_down

About Demian

Work/education

Activities

Company profile(s)

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I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

Convoy Corp; Innotas.com; SplitStep Solutions (current)

Companies I've invested in:

Privately my own startups and publicly I stick with Index funds

Startups I worked for:

see above

If you are an entrepreneur, why?

I like a big salary and minimal risk. Yeah, right.

My favorite startups:

Whichever ones i'm working on!

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Most frustrating? Cash flow; cash flow; cash flow

Most rewarding? Finding customers with courage

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?

As Harry Callahan says two times in Dirty Harry, "A man's got to know his limitations."

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Don't love your solution, love the process of solving the problem
2. Make sure you can sell what you are doing before you raise money
3. Investors care about revenue, founders care about cash flow: don't confuse the two

Full bio

Visit Demian's blog: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/ppm/archives/comment-on-comments-25230

Investor interests

Demian is an investor but hasn't provided additional information.

Business owner

Own SplitStep as CEO

Education

1988 UCLA , BA

Investor

Accredited

Demian said "There's an entire conference Las Vegas on how to prevent hospital re-admissions. Now that's what I call focus....." via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "In healthcare, how often does the prospect of "more money for me" drive the nature of our cognitive bias? http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-big-idea-before-you-make-that-big-decision/ar/2" via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "Quote from Bob Kocher who worked on health care for Obama: "We asked the question, 'What plan can you invent that will cover a lot of people and not change anything?'" Yeah - we want great new results but we don't want change. Good luck with that one." via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "On practice transformation, Allyson Gottsman (www.healthteamworks.com) said to me today: "If everything you try works, then you aren't trying enough things."" via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian published an article, "Mac? PC? Neither?" on VatorNews

Demian said "A question: can employers buy employee wellness solutions the same way we buy other solutions? Pay the bill, turn it on, and call it done? " via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "The term ACCOUNTABLE has grown fashionable in healthcare. What does it mean? It means literally ABLE to ACCOUNT for X. In other words it is about reporting on the numbers. It is an accounting of outcomes. Reporting the outcome numbers drives understanding and responsibility." via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "A conundrum: organizations need to understand their health solutions if they are going to take ownership of the solution - but the reverse turns out to be true as well. They have to take ownership so they can understand." via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "At this point, whenever I am presented with a metric that I can't immediately make sense of, I ask myself the following question: "what are the desired outcomes and how are they different from the current outcomes?"" via Claremont Partners's profile

Demian said "After a long client meeting on goals, one questions stands out above all others: to what degree should an employer invest in the happiness of the employees and dependents in the organization? What is the goal of happiness? Thomas Jefferson obviously thought it was important." via Claremont Partners's profile

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