Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear Medicine

Re:Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclea... by Lanthanide on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:12PM (#19565731)

This is fascinating, and a niche where I can definitely see a smaller player causing a splash and driving down prices for nuclear medicine.

My question is, how equipped are you to handle regulatory hurdles for international customers? It's one thing for a small firm to deal with US civil nuclear regulations, but how are you going to deal with the regulators of each foreign market you intend to export to? I imagine that this is something that the larger providers in the field use economies of scale to deal with, but could be a hurdle for a startup.

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Re:Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclea... by atomicalchemy on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:49PM (#19566618)

Great question. The way I'm currently looking at that issue is that the market for the US alone is huge (50% of the world market). By the time I satiate the US market, I will have been able to hire that expertise in. Another possibility is that if I sell directly to a distributor/radiopharmacy, I won't have to deal with any of that anyways.

Regardless, that is an important issue, but one I don't have to have a solid answer to for several years.

Great username, btw. ;)

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