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Welcome to The Bossy Nurse Podcast, a show about nurse creators, innovators, risk-takers, and the ideas that shape their success.
Nurses are full of solutions, but too often, the missing piece is the business and funding roadmap to turn a clinical insight into something that can grow beyond one unit.
In this episode of The Bossy Nurse Podcast, Marsha speaks with Dr. Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, RN, a healthcare innovation expert bringing nursing business ideas to life through venture capital. They talk about talk about what it takes to build nurse-led companies that can truly scale… and what founders need to understand before they ever take venture capital.
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Key takeaways
- Venture capital isn’t “extra credit.” If you take VC, you’re expected to go all-in—no side gigs.
- Nurses need a funding roadmap as much as they need a great idea—because most of us were never taught how to scale a solution beyond our unit.
- Building what’s missing is a pattern, not a moment—and Dan’s path into investment work came from repeatedly spotting gaps and stepping in to solve them.
Show notes / what you’ll hear in this episode
- Why building a company can get intense quickly—and what changes once you’re “the founder.”
- What venture capital actually expects when they invest (and why they expect total focus).
- How Dr. Dan Weberg and Nurse Capital are working to open doors for nurse founders to access funding and support.
- How spotting what isn’t working—and building what’s missing—shaped Dan’s innovation mindset early on.
- Why growth and scale require more than passion.
- A quick story from nursing school that shows how Dan started taking initiative when he saw a gap.
Resources mentioned in the show
- Dr. Dan’s website
- Connect with Dr. Dan on LinkedIn
- Learn about Venture Capital and submit your deck at here
- Get The Nurse’s Dose – Shift Change: A Cocktail Guide for Healthcare Professionals
- Vote for The Bossy Nurse Podcast in Nurse.org’s 2026 Best of Nursing Awards
- Get free resources from TheBossyNurse.com here
Where to find Dan online
- Nurse Capital (Dr. Dan Weberg is a General Partner)
Bio: Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, RN, FAAN
Dr. Dan Weberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and complex systems leadership. He has extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings and academia.
Dan supports Kaiser Permanente as the Executive Director of Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation building nursing workforce planning, a system level new grad residency program, and other system level nursing workforce initiatives. He has also held leadership roles at KP in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 70,000 nurses. Dan was part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
He previously served as the Vice President for Transformation Services at Ascension, supporting 60,000 nurses and 140+ facilities in modernizing nursing technology, developing new care models, and measuring innovation outcomes.
Dan was Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform for the healthcare industry, where he helped drive product strategy and worked to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce.
Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and multiple innovation fellowship programs. He previously taught on nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice.
Dan earned his Bachelors in Nursing, and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program, as well as the first-ever graduate of the PhD in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at Arizona State University. Dan serves on several boards, including the American Nurses Association California as Vice President.
