By Thomas Weidling | Posted: Friday June 30, 2017
Kim won the first Audacious Challenge in 2006 with Medikidz - a business idea that went on to earn support from Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, and has since gone global.
Medikidz, now based in London, produces information on diagnoses or medicines that children can understand. The interactive comic books feature superheroes, and are written by doctors for children, in their language, and at their level. The company has distributed over 3,500,000 Medikidz comic books in several languages to over 100 countries.
Following that success, Kim has moved into a new education resource business, this time informing and empowering adults on specific health conditions.
Now based in Sydney, she explained up to 80 percent of information given to patients is either forgotten or misunderstood. Often information sheets on medical conditions aren’t enough to explain the medical issue, and to answer questions and allay fears.
Medicine X is filling that gap with a mobile app for patients, targeted at adults with specific health issues, including Parkinson’s and diabetes.
Health organisations in Australia and New Zealand are full of praise for the resource.
Kim originally trained as a doctor, then studied entrepreneurship before taking her health skills into the world of commerce.
She has found setting up a second business a “piece of cake” after learning the ropes establishing the first company, particularly on creating a lean business with little investment – she currently works from her home.
Looking back, Kim realises To be successful in business, Dr Kim Chilman-Blair is convinced you have to get out of your comfort zone.
Kim won the first Audacious Challenge in 2006 with Medikidz - a business idea that went on to earn support from Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, and has since gone global.
Medikidz, now based in London, produces information on diagnoses or medicines that children can understand. The interactive comic books feature superheroes, and are written by doctors for children, in their language, and at their level. The company has distributed over 3,500,000 Medikidz comic books in several languages to over 100 countries.
Following that success, Kim has moved into a new education resource business, this time informing and empowering adults on specific health conditions.
Now based in Sydney, she explained up to 80 percent of information given to patients is either forgotten or misunderstood. Often information sheets on medical conditions aren’t enough to explain the medical issue, and to answer questions and allay fears.
Medicine X is filling that gap with a mobile app for patients, targeted at adults with specific health issues, including Parkinson’s and diabetes.
Health organisations in Australia and New Zealand are full of praise for the resource.
Kim originally trained as a doctor, then studied entrepreneurship before taking her health skills into the world of commerce.
She has found setting up a second business a “piece of cake” after learning the ropes establishing the first company, particularly on creating a lean business with little investment – she currently works from her home.
business has always been important to her - she started on the entrepreneurial pathway from primary school age, selling pet mice to classmates, then graduating into sales of repackaged shampoo and conditioner. “I made a killing,” she recalls.
But she says it wasn’t until she handed in her notice as a clinician working in a hospital that she realised juggling work obligations alongside setting up a business doesn’t work; success comes only from 100 percent commitment.
“My advice to new entrepreneurs is that you have to be very focused, to have an undying belief, and to accept that people will say you’re crazy. It’s scary but you can’t do it from a place of comfort – you have to have the pressure of finding money to pay the rent to really know how to make it succeed.”
“It’s very satisfying to see something created from nothing – to be excited when you first employ one person and then to see it grow to a dozen and more, and to see people directly benefitting from the product you have created. There is nothing like it.”