Eric Kirsch started out running basketball camps as a 17-year old which mostly paid his way through college and ultimately became a physician’s assistant. In 2003, he moved down to Charlotte to start his life in the medical community. After several years as an employee, he started his own specialty/niche practice, grew it to four locations (Charlotte, Mooresville, Asheville, and Cary) and ultimately sold those practices.
In the process, he learned how to code in order to build solutions for his own practice. As he has re-started his entrepreneurial journey after taking several years off his knowledge of technology has served as a springboard. He’s created a holding company where he tests ideas for the medical community and if it starts to gain traction he raises money to help launch those companies. So he has done this with three of the four companies/ideas and hopes to travel down that path with the fourth soon.
He is currently excited about his roles with the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs which he started in Charlotte and Beacon Healthcare Benefits . With the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs starting here, he is launching an event here in Charlotte – the NC Healthcare Innovation Conference – September 21 from 8:00am to 5:00pm. If you are interested in attending, you can purchase tickets on Eventbrite by clicking here.
Listening to Eric you learn he’s constantly tinkering with different ideas and concepts. You also get the sense that Scott Pope‘s podcast from a few weeks ago talking about Charlotte becoming health care startup city has legs.
Listen in next week as we spend more time focusing on Eric’s startup which just launched – Beacon Healthcare Benefits. It’s a bold concept in a market that is rapidly changing. It’s crazy enough that it just may work and I think you’ll enjoy hearing more.
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