Derek Herrera is the founder of Spinal Singularity, a medical device company that develops products to improve lives for those with spinal injury. He started the company in 2015 after working for another startup medical device company to learn a bit of the ropes.
We discussed his path to becoming an entrepreneur and journey so far.Derek graduated from the Naval Academy and was a Marine Corps officer for many years. He was shot and injured while on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and was paralyzed. He has been a very active advocate for Marines and veterans and is on the board of several foundations. It is amazing how many parallels his military experience and startup journey have, and his training there has been very helpful to him.
He’s also been building community amongst medical device industry founders in the area, so we’re kindred spirits in trying to connect more people here for greater support, encouragement and advantage. Derek is exactly the type of entrepreneur we need to support, encourage and provide "unfair advantage" to for creating an innovative company here in Orange County.
Dave Ferrera - General Partner of Treadstone Holdings
Sloane Keane - CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and Inland Empire
Jeff Martin - CEO & Founder of Collective Genius
Minnie Ingersoll - Partner at TenOneTen
Curtis Boyd - Founder & CEO of Objection Co
Zach Silverman - Founder of Educated Investors
Marvin Liao - Partner at GameGroove Capital & Former Partner at 500 Startups
Rajeev Kapur - President & CEO of 1105 Media
Tommy Tallarico - President & CEO of Intellivision Entertainment
William Fikhman - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Amazzia
Joshua Lee - Founder & CEO of Ardius
Annette Walker - President of City of Hope OC
Libby Duane Adams - Co-founder & Chief Advocacy Officer of Alteryx
Bob Nunn - CEO of Everactive
Deepa Krishnan - Co-founder & CEO of Spoonful
Kelly Perdew - Co-founder & Managing Partner of Moonshots Capital
Jennifer Friend - CEO of Project Hope Alliance
Ben Kuo - Founder & Publisher of socalTECH
(Part 2) John Dearie - President of Center for American Entrepreneurship
Giorgi Chigogidze & Chris Steege - Co-founders & CEO, CMO, respectively at Purlin
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Commercial Edge: Unleash the Power of People
The emPOWERed Half Hour
U.S Property Podcast
Aligned Money Show
Dubai Property Podcast
The Ramsey Show
The Clark Howard Podcast