Today's Entrepreneur: Jarie Bolander
No. 1 Mistake: Giving up to soon
Today's Entrepreneur is Jarie Bolander, Co-founder and COO at Lab Sensor Solutions, a company that specializes in IoT Sensors for the Healthcare industry. They increases patient safety while helping customers meet regulatory requirements, reduce costs and save lives. Their initial product, T-Tracks™, is a real-time ‘Sensor as a Service’ solution that monitors perishable materials, like lab samples, blood and pharmaceuticals, in transit, and alerts customers before materials are compromised.
Bolander is a graduate from San Jose State University with a degree of Electrical Engineering and he went to University of Phoenix for his MBA. He has twenty years of experience in managing, developing and manufacturing complex systems, software and semiconductor products.
Lab Sensor Solutions self-categorizes in these areas: Cloud Computing, Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT), Medical, Software as a service, and Mobile.
Here's a little about Bolander:
Companies I work or worked for: Tagent Corporation, Cypress Semiconductor, Lab Sensor Solutions, Ion Torrent (acquired by Life Technologies)
Achievements (products built, personal awards won): I have developed and launched products leveraging technologies such as Bluetooth, USB (new wireless USB standard), RFID (pioneering on-chip antenna integration) and DNA Sequencing (first product to sequence entire human genome for under $1,000).
If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to impact the world in a positive way. At Lab Sensor Solutions we’re improving healthcare in a way that can literally save lives.
My favorite startups: Canva, Slack, MailChimp
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Rewarding: Delivering technology solutions that improve people’s lives. Also, working with teams that are aligned toward solving real-world problems.
Frustrating: When technologies and solutions don’t find product-market fit, or when they are too ahead of their time to gain enough traction in the marketplace.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1) Never give up
2) It's all about the Team
3) Never let money get in the way of progress
I am an engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, experienced at bring innovative solutions to market. Currently I'm the co-founder and COO of Lab Sensor Solutions, a company improving healthcare through the use of sensor networks that can monitor and track everything from a patient’s lab samples to other healthcare assets, like infusion pumps. I have developed and launched products leveraging technologies such as Bluetooth, USB, RFID and Semiconductor DNA sequencing.
Prior to co-founding Lab Sensor Solutions, I was with Ion Torrent, a 3rd generation DNA sequencing company, bought by Life Technologies for $750 Million. Ion Torrent was the first company to productize semiconductor sequencing technology able to sequence the entire human genome for under $1,000.
Before that I was a founder and VP of R&D for Tagent, an innovative RFID company, creating breakthrough technology that integrated antennas onto silicon in order to achieve a more compact form factor. Prior to Tagent, I was at Cypress Semiconductor where, as the technical project manager for Wireless USB, we created a new wireless standard that made wireless technology as easy connecting something via USB.
I have an MBA in Technology Management from UOP and a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. I’m also the inventor or co-inventor on over 10 patents and I’ve published two books: “Frustration Free Technical Management” and “#ENDURANCE tweet — A Little Nudge to Keep You Going.”
Lab Sensor Solutions. will compete live on stage at Splash Health on Feb. 23 at Kaiser Center, Oakland. Register here.
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Lab Sensor Solutions specializes in IoT Sensor data & uses it to solve real problems in the healthcare and food safety markets. We increase safety while helping customers meet regulatory requirements, reduce costs and save lives. The opportunity for sensor network data to positively impact systems and processes within healthcare and food safety is huge.
Our initial product, T-Tracks™, is a real-time solution that monitors perishable materials, like lab samples, blood and pharmaceuticals, and fresh foods, dairy and key farm production parameters, and alerts customers before materials are compromised. T-Tracks™ meets a real need right now. Our initial customers are seeing major benefits and the industry is waking up to the realities of increased regulatory enforcement and demand for safer products and reducing margins that make our solution a must-have for their operations.
Our team has deep experience in the space, where founders previously worked together to solve similar customer problems. Our T-Tracks™ customers are very enthusiastic, we have a distribution partnerships and VAR deals and integrations underway.
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I am an engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, experienced at bring innovative solutions to market. Currently I'm the co-founder and COO of Lab Sensor Solutions, a company improving healthcare through the use of sensor networks.