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In today’s episode of the Global Medical Device Podcast Jon Speer welcomes Sara Naab to the show. Sara is the co-founder and director of quality and marketing for Sandstone Diagnostics. Sara shares with us insights into what it’s been like going from idea, to raising funding, to being name one of the 40 most innovative life sciences companies in the Bay Area. Pretty impressive and interesting. It all started in the summer of 2012. The company makes consumer wellness products to help people better understand their health. They provide over the counter results of tests to patients and physicians. Sara begins the discussion with the company’s first product, Trak. Trak is an app that will help men monitor their sperm count and how to improve their fertility. Medical devices are expensive for a reason. Getting started is hard. Money will always be a challenge. That is her opening advice to startups. At the beginning of Sandstone, Sara was pregnant. Her first suggestion to her co-founder (her husband) was