Crowdfunding From 500 Physicians Instead of 1 VC with Laurence Girard: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Laurence Girard is the CEO of Fruit Street Health, an online diabetes prevention program he has raised more than 30 million dollars for from 500 plus physicians.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You don’t need a venture capital firm to be a successful entrepreneur.
2. The only thing that ever changed the world was a small group of committed citizens.
3. Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will land amongst the stars.
Fruit Street’s website - Fruit Street
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| 0:00.0 | Light that spark fire nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, the only daily show interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down crowdfunding from 500 physicians instead of one VC. |
| 0:17.9 | To draw these vibe bombs, I brought to Lawrence Gerard and EO Fire Studios. Lawrence is the CEO of Fruit Street Health, an online diabetes prevention program |
| 0:25.7 | where he has raised more than $30 million from 500 plus physicians. And today, |
| 0:30.6 | financial, we'll talk about how you don't need venture capital to be a successful entrepreneur |
| 0:34.2 | and how the only thing that ever changed the world was a small group |
| 0:37.6 | of committed citizens. And shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land amongst the stars and oh so |
| 0:43.7 | much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Lawrence and our sponsors. |
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| 1:05.9 | today at Thriveetime show.com slash EO Fire. Fire Nation, you have a book inside you and it's time to share |
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| 1:20.4 | personally guide you 101 to create, write, publish, and market your book. If you want daily |
| 1:25.9 | guidance and mentorship from me, JLD, then head |
| 1:28.6 | over to author 100.com to sign up for a free call with me to chat about the details. |
| 1:35.7 | Lawrence, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming |
| 1:42.4 | successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:45.5 | You don't need a venture capital firm to be a successful entrepreneur. |
| 1:49.5 | Kind of the entire focus of our talk, because Lawrence went from instead of using a VC |
| 1:58.3 | to crowdfunding with 500 physicians. So let's be honest, Lawrence, |
| 2:05.4 | health is a big space. And I mean huge. Why is diabetes prevention specifically your main focus? |
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