Charlotte Angel Connection

Today we have Scott Pope, founder of In Scope Ventures, on the Charlotte Angel Connection.   Scott is working to bring a health care angle to the Charlotte startup scene – not necessarily in the traditional pharmaceutical or the medical device space but in medicine as a business.  It’s an effort gaining support with some key folks in the Charlotte area and I wanted to bring the concept out to the listeners of the podcast. In today’s interview we dive straight into what In Scope Ventures is so we can get a better concept of what Scott’s working on.  From there, we dive into a host of other areas by touching base on the following questions and more. Have you looked around and noticed Charlotte doesn’t have a medical school?  Add in the fact that we don’t have a great pool of early stage capital to invest into companies and it doesn’t seem like a good mix. On a serious note, though, is there another city out there to serve as a model for what you are trying to do? How does your background set you up to do th