Subscribe & DownloadListen onApple PodcastsFollow us onSoundCloudListen on       Google PlayListen on       ​SpotifyGuest: ​​Kyle Isaacson ​Episode Transcript (Click to expand)00:04  Ramesh: Hello everyone. This is Ramesh Dontha, the host of the podcast, the agile entrepreneurial podcast. This podcast is for any entrepreneur who, any person as a matter of fact, who wants to start their own business, or it could be an entrepreneur who started the business, but they would like to learn more from other entrepreneurs. So today I'm very, very excited to introduce a gentleman by name Kyle Isaacson, and he's got a very interesting background. He's founder of Ike scientific and on the side, depending on which way you look at it he's also doing his PhD in bioengineering at the university of UDA. Right, that's a full-time job, a business is a side gig or the businesses aside PhD is the main, so we'll find out more from Kyle. So, Kyle, welcome. 00:54  Kyle: I'm so glad to be here. Thank you for having me. Ramesh  00:58  Ramesh: So Kyle so can I call you Dr Isaacson yet or not?  01:02  Kyle: Not officially. You know, I do receive quite a few of spam emails addressing me as Dr Isaacson, but not quite yet. Not officially  01:10  Ramesh: Okay. So we'll wait until you a complete your PhD. So let's talk more about your business today. All right, so talk about Ike scientific. What does it do?  01:22  Kyle: Yeah, Ike scientific you know, I just barely started it, and founded April 1st of 2019 so just barely, you know, seven, eight months ago. And what Ike scientific does is we are a consulting firm, but instead of focusing on your traditional executive and business decisions, we focus and work directly with research and development teams to help with product development, to help find the scientific answers to help overcome specific hurdles that companies might be facing. And also to help a little bit with the manufacturing processes. And so as we do that, instead of, you know, taking the high executive angle on things, we work more on the hands-on level with companies.  02:12  Ramesh: Fantastic. So is your field where you're doing PhDs nanotechnology are there any specific areas that you're working in?  02:23  Kyle: Yes. So while my main focus is nanotechnology. I specifically work in a field of pharmaceutics called drug delivery. This involves a lot of chemical formulations, so you can think of, you know, creating sunscreens, lotions you know shampoos, all this sort of different formulations. And as you can imagine, there's quite a huge demand for some kind of contract consulting work in that area. And so Ike scientific is specifically focusing on these areas at this point, but I'm really hoping to bring on a few different scientists that might be a little bit entrepreneurial themselves to help expand our options and bringing in some new expertise.   03:12  Ramesh: Excellent Kyle. So, I mean, we know about the stories from the Silicon Valley, people who are doing, you know, research, whether it's Stanford or Berkeley or whatever they founded companies whilst they are still in college. So it looks like your story is similar to that, but how did you come up with it? I mean, did the university encourage you or can you talk a little bit about the start itself?   03:33  Kyle: Yeah, absolutely. So to answer one of the small questions in that, the university absolutely did not encourage me. In fact, I kind of took the route of hiding it from the university for quite some time. So the way that it really worked is, I'm a scientist, but I'm also fairly religious. I attended a religious class and they said, you know, take opportunities to find new ways to bring in some side finances. And I thought, well, what skills do I have? I'm a scientist. And I thought, well, actually every time that I’ve run into some business executives or other individuals,