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What does it take to convey your idea to financiers?

- How will you organize all that information? What you need is a clear outline and focus

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

.

- First you must identify your audience. Who are your potential stakeholders.

- Rank them according to importance, but most importantly ha

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

e a plan on how they affect your future business.

In terms of an effective and well accepted layout, the following is a good start, but first

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

where is your business located?

Business Location

Why is this important? Well it can be important in regards to the amount of traffi

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

will pass or that you can drive to your business. If it is online there are various marketing programs you can use: pay per click, search eng

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ine advertising, local targeted keywords and searches. But if it is not here is a few things you can consider:

How close are other similar bu

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

inesses to yours?

Is your business not available in the area yet?

Do you have people that already have committed in becoming customers?

Do

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

you have lots of cars that go buy your street, is that good or bad for the type of business?

How much walking traffic goes by your business?

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

Are there other related businesses that people would use while going to yours?

This is the latest thing, the drive up small box/big box retai

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

l concept, strip mall are out, this is in.

You can drive your vehicle to the area and go to a number of shops to get what you need for the ho

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

se, groceries, personal, restaurants etc.

So remember these things when designing your business and evaluating sales potential.

Business

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

Plan Layout

Executive Summary - Who are you and what are you planning to do? List of managers, key people involved, roles and experience.

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

# Company - Where is your company located and what's your specialty? Area located, physical, distribution etc.

# Product or Service - what i

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

s your service and why is it better. You need to provide greater value than currently in the market.

# Market - Who are you distinctly sellin

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

your product to and why will they buy it? Is it because of price, service, new technology?

# Competition - Who is your competition in terms

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

of product, pricing and placement strategy in and outside of your local area? How do you differentiate from competition in order to maintain l

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ng-term staying power and drive customer choice.

# Sales and Marketing - How, where, when and to who are you going to sell your product or se

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

rvice and what makes it special?

# Operations - Who will be operating your company, managing and what systems will be in place?

# Financial

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

How much money do you need to operate your company in the next 6 months to 5 years?,

How will you spend it specifically? Break it down into

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

short and long term finances, fixed and non-fixed assets. Can you lease products?

Appendix -pertinent information, contracts, references, etc

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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