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Interviewee: Carlos Barrera
City where you’re from: Barranquilla
Hobbies: Music, Triathlon, Photography, Writing, reading.
Favorite quote: If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are most probably right.
Social accounts : Linkedin
What are you working on? How did you come up with this idea?
Carlos Barrera: I am currently working on a Global Health Information System (Cloud based) called MediciNets, the idea came after noticing how difficult was for doctors to administer their agenda, manage patient’s clinical history, request analysis, generate recipes, manage the medical insurance and have access to all that information in one place, making more time available to actually attend the patient, and improve the communication with them. As for the patient is a pain to find the right doctor, in terms of quality, distance from home or availability, and make appointments and have notifications about any change of schedule according to doctor agenda.
How is your company different?
Our company efforts to facilitate regular people’s life whether you are a doctor or a patient, our aim is to create innovative collaboration environments intended to ease a number of interactions with the purpose of saving valuable time and enrich your quality of life.
What’s your dream with your company?
Our company’s dream is to be the health information system most used around the globe, and become a valuable tool for doctors and patients in order to organize their lives.
How do you creatively advertise?
Becoming a Doctor requires great responsibility, we want to help you on that duty, and be part of that journey, we are doctors and patient’s greatest partner.
What were your biggest failure and biggest success? What did you learn from them?
My biggest failure has been procrastinating decisions based on other people’s opinion, is always good and necessary to listen to everyone, the feedback is a very important personal tool; nevertheless, if your instinct tells you to start something new or stop doing something you don’t enjoy anymore you should take immediate action and follow what you know you will be the best at. I biggest success was to become the CTIO of a big ICT company, I wanted that since I received my grade from the university and made everything to be in that position, I learned on every step of the path and now I am applying all that knowledge as Board Member and Co-founder in different startups.
Give the readers the best entrepreneurship advice you have.
If you have an idea, make sure you go completely for that idea, make a strategy, plan every step, and then execute it, become your own brand, and market it, on every conversation you may have.
Where do you see yourself and your product in a couple years?
I see myself directing my own Tech company, making Tech a valuable tool to help people have a better life.
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