U.S. Market Entry Accelerator for Healthcare Startups (Full Program): Build your roadmap to enter, launch, and gain traction in the U.S. healthcare market

with Ikram Guerd

The U.S. healthcare market represents a major opportunity, but entering it requires much more than replicating what worked in your home market. This 5-session accelerator is designed for international healthcare … Read more

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Ikram Guerd

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About this session

The U.S. healthcare market represents a major opportunity, but entering it requires much more than replicating what worked in your home market.

This 5-session accelerator is designed for international healthcare startups that want to turn their U.S. ambitions into a focused, realistic, and actionable market-entry strategy.

Across five 60-minute 1:1 sessions, we’ll work together step by step to answer the critical questions:
Is your company ready? Where is the opportunity? Who should you target first? How should you position and commercialize your solution? And what should you actually do in your first 6 months?

The 5-session journey:
1. U.S. Market Readiness
Assess your current stage, objectives, assumptions, resources, evidence, and key barriers to entering the U.S.

2. Understand the U.S. Market
Explore the market landscape, competition, customer needs, healthcare ecosystem, and key differences from your home market.

3. Find Your Beachhead Market
Define your ideal customer, prioritize segments, and map buyers, users, KOLs, influencers, and potential early adopters.

4. Build Your U.S. Go-to-Market Strategy
Sharpen your positioning and explore pilots, partnerships, channels, market development, and commercialization strategy.

5. From Strategy to First Traction
Turn your strategy into action with clear priorities, targets, milestones, KPIs, and a practical 6-month U.S. roadmap.

I bring 20+ years of healthcare, marketing, and commercialization experience across global organizations and startups, including nearly a decade working in the U.S. healthcare ecosystem and firsthand experience bringing European healthcare innovation to the U.S.

My approach is practical and hands-on: we’ll challenge assumptions, focus on what matters most, and build a strategy tailored to your company rather than following a generic market-entry playbook.

You’ll leave the series with greater clarity on your U.S. opportunity, priority customers, positioning, GTM approach, and a concrete plan for your next 6 months.

Special series rate: $899 for all five 60-minute sessions instead of $995 full program (a $96 saving compared with booking the five sessions individually at $199 each).

Best for: International MedTech, FemTech, Digital Health, diagnostics, and healthcare startups preparing for or actively pursuing U.S. expansion.

Your mentor

👋 Hi there,
I help ambitious professionals and founders turn experience, ideas, and uncertainty into a clear path forward.

With 20+ years of experience across healthcare, MedTech, FemTech, diagnostics, and consumer marketing, I’ve built my career between Europe and the U.S., from global companies such as Procter & Gamble and Danaher to leading the U.S. commercialization of an innovative women’s health MedTech startup.

Today, I work with startups and healthcare innovators on go-to-market strategy, positioning, commercialization, U.S. market entry, and growth. I’m also passionate about helping professionals navigate their own careers—whether that means stepping into leadership, transitioning into healthcare, moving from corporate to startup, building a personal brand, or figuring out what comes next.

Having mentored 100+ professionals worldwide, I know that the most valuable mentoring goes beyond generic career advice. My approach is practical, candid, and action-oriented. We’ll identify where you want to go, what may be holding you back, and the concrete steps that can move you forward.

I can particularly help you with:

• Career strategy, transitions, and leadership growth
• Marketing, brand, and go-to-market strategy
• Breaking into or advancing within healthcare, MedTech, and FemTech
• Moving from corporate environments to startups or vice versa
• U.S. market entry and navigating European vs. U.S. business environments
• Startup positioning, commercialization, and early-stage growth
• Personal branding, networking, interviews, and executive communication
• Building confidence and clarity around your next professional move

I’ve built a career across countries, industries, company sizes, and leadership roles, so I understand that careers are rarely linear. Sometimes you need a strategy. Sometimes you need a sounding board. And sometimes you need someone who will challenge your assumptions and help you take the next step.

If you’re looking for a mentor who combines strategic thinking with practical, real-world experience, I’d be happy to work with you.

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