Drilling into Business

This week hosts Tim Ryan, and Zack Miller sit down with Casey Grage, Founder, and CEO of Hubly Surgical, a company that modernizes bedside intracranial access. Its first product is an integrated electric drill system designed to streamline bedside intracranial access. Watch this week's episode to hear about Casey Grage's innovation journey and much more! Tim Ryan is an angel investor and the Executive Director of StartWheel, an organization dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs with resources in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Learn more at: https://www.startwheel.org Zack Miller is a serial entrepreneur and author of Anomaly, a guide on differentiating yourself and your business from the crowd. Learn more at: https://www.zackmillersays.com Enjoy the show? Watch the Fervent Four Show LIVE every Thursday at 11 AM. Live: https://www.startwheel.org/live/ Watch past episodes: https://www.startwheel.org/fervent-four-show/ Listen to past episodes: https://fathom.fm/podcast/fervent-four Show notes: (0:00) Introducing Casey Grage (4:43) Drilling into a skull (8:50) Addressing the problem (17:37) Creating a prototype + early stages (28:16) Hubly Surgical Drill Demo (32:22) Creating a standard of care process (37:42) Taking advantage of resources in the 757 (42:03) Raising $2 million in funding (47:03) Utilizing the "no's" in business (57:16) Next steps + conclusion https://hublysurgical.com/ Companies Mentioned: Hubly Surgical: https://hublysurgical.com/ 757 Accelerate: https://757accelerate.org/ Northwestern University: https://www.northwestern.edu/ John Hopkins University: https://www.jhu.edu/ 2 min Hubly Electric Drill Demo: https://youtu.be/BCmTLIAlg00 Hubly wins 1st Place at Tulane Business Model Competition: https://freemannews.tulane.edu/2022/03/23/medical-device-maker-earns-top-prize-at-tulane-business-model-competition Hubly Closes $1.3M pre-seed round: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2021/12/22/hubly-surgical-funding-skull-drilling-device.html Hubly wins $25k Johns Hopkins 1st Place Prize: https://hublysurgical.com/2022/05/07/hubly-wins-1st-place-25000-prize-at-johns-hopkins-student-venture-challenge/ Hubly wins $50k ASU Human Health Prize: https://hublysurgical.com/2022/02/11/hubly-wins-bd-sponsored-human-health-grand-prize/ About Casey Grage & Hubly Surgical Casey Grage (CEO) and Dr. Amit Ayer (Director) met at Northwestern over their shared interest in neurology: Casey because of her long family history with neurological disease and Amit because he was a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Hospital. Together they identified the low satisfaction and high failure rates of today's bedside cranial access tools, invented the Hubly Drill System, and assembled the other team members via close network connections. Hubly was incorporated in May 2019. Hubly is focused on modernizing bedside intracranial access. Targeting neurosurgeons, our first product is an integrated electric drill system designed to streamline bedside intracranial access, decrease operating room reliance, and facilitate treatment for emerging indications. Learn More: https://hublysurgical.com/about-us/ The Fervent Four Show: Did you know that only 4% of businesses hit $1M in revenue? Tim Ryan and Zack Miller are the creators of The Fervent Four Show, designed to help you get there. Check them out Live every Thursday at 11 AM. Social Media: Hubly Surgical https://hublysurgical.com Twitter: @hublysurgical (https://twitter.com/HublySurgical), @caseygrage (https://twitter.com/CaseyGrage) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubly, https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseygrage/ Instagram: @hublysurgical (https://www.instagram.com/hublysurgical), @caseygrage (https://www.instagram.com/caseygrage) Facebook: https://facebook.com/hublysurgical Tim Ryan https://www.startwheel.org Twitter (personal): @ryantnt (https://twitter.com/ryantnt) Twitter: @StartWheel (https://twitter.com/StartWheel) LinkedIn (personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryantnt/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startwheel-org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StartWheel Zack Miller https://www.zackmillersays.com Twitter: @zackmillersays (https://twitter.com/zackmillersays) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zackmillersays Thanks to our Sponsors: The Hampton Roads Small Business Development Center – http://www.hrsbdc.org/en/ StartWheel – https://www.startwheel.org