Dr. Joshua Davidson discusses his optometry and entrepreneurial journey with Dr. Joseph Allen and shares the lessons he learned along the way … from idea to product development to bringing it to market.
Dr. Joshua Davidson has a clear passion for eye care and his patients as an optometrist, which has led him to help solve their problems through innovation and product development. He has become a national expert on Dry Eye Disease and specialty contact lenses. While seeing 30-50 dry eye patients a day and discussing the importance of drinking water, he realized there was a hole in the market. He pulled together a few doctors to formulate a drink mix specifically to help dry eye patients. He discusses the entrepreneurial journey with Dr. Joseph Allen and shares the lessons he learned along the way … from idea to product development to bringing it to market.
Learn more about the Dry Eye Drink here: https://dryeyedrink.com/
Key Moments
1:59 How Dr. Davidson got into optometry
3:56 Where/how Dr. Davidson practices optometry today
5:29 His path to focusing on specialty lenses
8:07 The origins and development of the Dry Eye Drink
12:52 Collaborating with five doctors on product development
14:15 Bringing a new product to market 20:40 Flavor preferences. Does orange Dry Eye Drink taste like Tang?
22:22 Adding a night-time version to Dry Eye Drink
24:44 The research behind melatonin
28:22 The importance of having a mentor as an entrepreneur
30:25 The need for front-line doctors to create products that improve patients’ lives
33:30 Where the best ideas come from 35:49 Future research on the Dry Eye Drink
37:10 Thoughts on uniform licensing nationally