The $100M Mistake: Why Scientists Can't Translate Ideas to Market

From CFO/CEO roles to running Boston Market Strategies (reviewing 450+ products), to re-engineering clinical trials at places like Penn and Drexel, Curtis has spent 38+ years bridging academia, industry, and investors. In 2009 he launched Eureka Connect, a behavioural science powerhouse that uses validated assessments to reveal exactly why you do what you do — your hardwired drives, ego, discipline, social skills, and more. The core value right now? Leadership is the bottleneck in biotech translation. Curtis shows how understanding behavioural mechanisms of action lets you build teams that don’t just survive but actually deliver cures, close funding rounds, and scale without the usual ego explosions. Guest Links Eureka Connect: https://eurekaconnect.comInstitute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship: https://ibeinc.org Edit your podcasts like a pro:https://get.descript.com/mrzy10nwivuq Join me as a guest or start your podcast journey:https://www.joinpodmatch.com/nickkuhne Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction & Curtis Sprouse’s background 02:30 – What Eureka Connect actually does (behavioural mechanism of action) 06:45 – Why 30 minutes reveals more than you expect 09:30 – Building real trust and social skills in teams 11:45 – Why the Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship exists 14:00 – The knowledge gap vs funding gap in translation 17:30 – Real success stories and the power of the 1500-person network 20:15 – US reshoring, investment climate, and global collaboration 25:00 – What Curtis’s year as CEO actually looks like 28:30 – Integrating AI into a 13-year-tenured team 32:45 – Behavioural science vs finance – where the real excitement is 35:30 – When to take the assessment (high school to C-suite) 37:45 – How to get involved with Eureka Connect and IBE Connect with me on:All my linksBecome a guestSign up for RiversideGet Descript #DigitalMarketing #Branding #PersonalBranding #MarketingInsights #SocialMediaStrategy Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.