How We Hit $1M In Revenue
This is a follow up story for Pain Care Labs a dba of MMJ Labs. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published over 6 years ago, check it out here.
Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.
Our story began with Buzzy, a medical device for needle phobia. I’m a pediatric emergency doctor and discovered a frequency of mechanical oscillation that could block injection pain for my kids. When we added ice to the frequency in a palm-sized cute device, we reduced needle pain 80%! To qualify for NIH SBIR research and development funding, I started a company in 2006. After going on Shark Tank and selling Buzzy into Quest Diagnostics and over 5000 hospitals and doctors’ offices for lab draws and injections, we were invited to an AARP Health Pavilion. Weird thinking about seniors for a pediatric device, but ok. It turns out our technology works whether the pain comes from needles or knees - it’s the same pain nerve. At the AARP we discovered the combination worked even better for adults than kids. The seniors began putting Buzzy on their bunions, trick fingers, and joints. We sold out.
Three years ago when a colleague in opioid recovery used Buzzy to completely avoid narcotics after a knee replacement, I decided to leave medical practice to focus on the broader need for drug-free pain relief. Since then we’ve developed a consumer VibraCool line...
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