Tiger Buford
Tiger provides unique industry insight in the orthopedics industry.
He founded BoneChat, a private, subscription-based community tailored for ortho professionals.
He founded OrthoStreams, musing about the orthopedic industry with over 3,500 articles and counting.
He founded Tiger Recruiting, a retained recruiting that provides talent for emerging orthopedic companies.
Tiger Buford is the orthopedic industry's top choice for retained recruiting providing honest, free information for those in the industry. He is an orthopedic lifer experienced in the industry as an engineer, executive, and now retained recruiter. He is a super-connector, influencer, and startup insider providing talent to startup orthopedic companies in the areas of engineering, R&D, marketing, regulatory, clinical, quality, and operations.
BoneChat #106 - Josh Zukerman, LinkedIn Sales Navigator work that results in real sales leads.
BoneChat #105 - Bill Hunter (Canary Medical) - Predicting Risk, Less Readmissions & 14k Savings.
BoneChat #104 - Storytelling with clinical data to move ortho companies forward
BoneChat #103 - Vendor Credentialing is broken and RepSource Is the answer for the ortho firms.
BoneChat #102 - Orthopedic Industry Crisis: Consolidation, Vendor Lockout, and Rising Access Costs.
14 Contrarian Opinions on the State of our Industry.
BoneChat #101 - The "Everything App" to make your sales force better
BoneChat #100: Unique Venture Studio & Overland Mobile Labs for anytime anywhere surgical training.
2 mins - your BoneChat membership explained.
BoneChat #99 - OrthoSens - CEO/Founder
Ortho Innovation in single-product vs multi-product startups
BoneChatters reflecting on the Treace Medical Concepts brilliance.
How to innovate in a mature ortho space like shoulders ?
Historic Cycles of Orthopedic Innovation
BoneChat #98 - Ortho business strategies, innovation, and the future landscape of the industry.
BoneChat #97 - Startup that has "democratized" surgical navigation for hip, knee, shoulder, spine.
BoneChat #96 - Implant Identifier app on your phone to better plan revision hardware removal.
BoneChat #95 - Pitch Sink update after 1 year.
BoneChat #94 - Open Discussion - Vendor Credentialing, Digital Marketing, & Botched Acquisition
AI in Orthopedics is not a thing.
New product benefits must be "proven" - cost reduction, cost management or clinical benefit.
Your new product must have $M+ savings are needed to get a large hospital's attention.
Sales Reps must listen or get banned
BoneChat #93: Ortho Device Strategies for Navigating VAC Approvals in Large Hospitals
Wise advice from Alyssa Huffman to avoid Magnesium implant spine cages.