Solving Big World Problems with Lori Most

Episode details

On Episode 12 Kevin McArdle, owner of SureSwift Capital and Jac Stark, community manager of Tech.MN, welcome Lori Most, founder of BackpackEMR, on The Tech.MN Podcast to talk about going from coder to founder. 

Lori shares her story of how joining her sister, a physician’s assistant, for a medical trip to Peru ignited the idea for an offline peer-to-peer electronic medical record (EMR) software product. She talks about becoming a founder, building software, and their latest contracts with Nairobi County in Kenya and Timmy Global Health.

We discuss the challenges of fundraising as a female founder and Lori’s first-hand experience to weeding out investors to find really great ones. 

Hype Time

Every episode we ask our guest to name drop someone doing cool things in the tech community. Lori gives a shout out to Casey Allen from Enterprise Rising. Listen to his podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Google. 

Sponsor:

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Socials

Tech.MN on Twitter
Kevin McArdle on Twitter
Jac Stark on Twitter
Lori Most of Twitter
BackpackEMR on Twitter

Links

BackpackEMR
Timmy Global Health
Venn Foundation (PRI)