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A couple years ago I took a step that I never thought would turn out as well as it has. A friend of mine turned me on to a site called CafePress which allows every day schmucks like me to design t-shi

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

rts and gifts, upload them to their site and then pays money based on markups that are set by the user. I had tried selling t-shirts in the past and given it up after realizing that the ink in my prin

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ter cost far too much and the cruddy heat transfers usually didn’t work all that well. And to be honest I didn’t have the cash to buy 25 t-shirts of only one design with only two or may three colors i

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

n it from a screen printer either.

But what Cafepress promised was to take the hassles out of this process. They would do all the heavy lifting from printing to shipping to handling the money and the

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

pay me if I ever made enough off the markups that I set to break the $25 minimum check amount.

Was I skeptical? You bet. I knew very little about this company and at the time they used heat transfer

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

s to create designs which I had had nothing but bad experiences with in the past. But I took a leap of faith. I whipped out some of my old designs, looked at them, tweaked them a little bit, paid the

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

small monthly fee for “premium” site and put them up on the site. I even ordered a hat and a t-shirt just to see if the quality was any good. I figured I was only out a couple bucks if nothing happene

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

d.

The items I ordered arrived and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality. The problems that I did notice were clearly problems of my own doing and after reading a little through their helpful h

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

w to guides I adjusted the designs and fixed the products.

Imagine my surprise however that when only about two weeks I made my first sale for a profit of a couple bucks. Then a couple days later som

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

eone else bought something for another couple bucks. And by the end of my first month I remember thinking that yeah I had only sold a handful of items (about one every 4 or 5 days) but I had actually

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

covered my cost.

So I set to work. I started out gathering up some more of my older designs many of which, I admit, were never really designed to be on t-shirts and started reworking them, uploading

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

and creating products. The next month passed and again I had sold enough to cover my costs plus a buck or two. Then the third month passed and I had made enough to cover my costs plus enough to pay my

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

monthly subscription to EverQuest which was my addiction at the time. Then I made enough to cover my costs plus my internet bills. Then enough to cover my costs plus my internet and phone bill. Then I

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

made enough to pay my car payment. Then I made enough to pay my mortgage. Then … well I think you get the picture.

I was stunned. I was so stunned that in 2004 I spun off a whole section of my origi

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

nal Cafepress storefront into its own site and made the leap to officially founding my own company, Land of the Free Studios, Inc. And then in late 2005 I started my third and fourth stores. On top of

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

that the printing technology has progressed to new heights with direct printing processes that rival screen printing.

And right now I count myself among the most successful Cafepress store owners, r

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ceiving a nice check from them each and every month.

Was it easy? No. Did it take hard work and long hours? Yep. Did my wife want to beat the crap out of me as I was sitting in front of the computer

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

at midnight instead of coming to bed when I had to be at work by 7 AM the next day? Oh yes. But the sacrifice and the hard work did pay off!

And it can for you too. That is IF you are willing to work

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

hard and you love what you do. The fact of the matter is sites like CafePress give every day schmoes like you and me a chance to make money with little or no up front investment and grow that busines

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

s as profits increase.

The truth of the matter is the sky really is the limit! It’s just a matter of whether or not you are willing to reach for the stars. Because the t-shirt economy is here to stay

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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