1. Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Founding President and CEO, www.sopenet.org

2. •Rising health care costs
•Access
•Quality
•Stressed innovation pipeline
•Disenfranchized and disempowered physicians
•Globalization
•Lack of bioentrepreneurship knowledge, skills
and abilities
•Lack of early stage money
•Lack of opportunities to get experience

3. Entrepreneurship (HBS): The pursuit of opportunity using
resources beyond those you currently control.
Biomedical Entrepreneurship (Meyers): The process of creating
customer/patient defined value by deploying biomedical and
health innovation.

4. Education
Experience
Connections/Mentors
Cash

5. The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (
www.s0penet.org) is a NFP global
biomedical and health innovation network .
Members include healthcare entrepreneurs,
investors, service providers, and industry
representatives

6. The mission of SoPE is to help biomedical
and healthcare entrepreneurs get their
ideas, discoveries and inventions to patients
by providing them with education ,
connections to service providers and
investors and offering value added products
and services.

7. Sope U is an online learning platform
SoPE Chapters offer monthly educational and network events
Partnerships with others offering meetings, seminars, etc
SoPE Summit
Collaborations with International Business Schools
CU Program in Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship

8. Working with local technology transfer offices or industry
SoPE Innovation Scholars Program
Acclerators like HealthStartZ in Denver

9. 5100 people on linkedin group
Extensive social media networ
SoPE Newsletter
SoPE Website at www.sopenet.org
Monthly Chapter meetings (over 20 around the world)

10. Connections to early stage investors
Collaborations with TIE Rockies, National Association of Seed
and Venture Funds, Rockies Venture Club, and other
international angel networks
Crowd funding intermediary?
SoPE Capital Mangement ?

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9000 global members on linkedin and website
Over 1350 dues paying members ($50/year)
Growing at 300 members/month
International chapter network
Chapter and global industry sponsors

12. Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
ceo@sopenet.net