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So the best way to spend $22M was on that dog Viking? They're on the market for years and we get stuck with them. JD is bottom fishing. What the hell are we supposed to bundle it with? Why don't they just give us the existing Linvatec camera?
 












Viking is another video system to an already saturated market.
The only reason conmed purchased them is for the 3D. conmed
Can not come up with new technology since the great engineers left.

Don't know why they would ask a bovie team to sell video.
Must be another great idea from JD or the Linvatec kids are to busy
Selling sequent or the other great SRS products to once again
another saturated market.

Good luck trouble shooting video and covering massive territory.
 


















Good luck using a 10mm 3D arthroscope. And we hear the Conmed endo guys get the 3D camera anyway. We will be lucky to keep selling the IM4000. No chance of the next gen camera happening.
 






If Viking was for sale and Stryker did not beat ConMed to the punch it means one of two things. Either the product sucks and wont sell or Stryker already has it in the pipeline and ConMed or Linvatec wont compete anyway. Good luck CobWeb/Linvawreck
 






When was the last time Cobweb bought anything that wasn't a POS? Olympus and Storz already have 3D and it's niche at best. Whoops, should have used the money on something customers actually want.
 












Because JD realizes that Arthrex will own the arthroscopy market within a year. Stryker, Storz and Olympus own the lap market. And JD wants the Linvatec guys to focus soley on their sports med line. That JD believed that endo could be successful selling anything in the OR is the surprising. That the CNMD board allowed JD to flush an existing product line down the drain, then pay $23m to hand the market to a competitor in exchange for a few million in 3d sales is shocking. Heads would roll at a normal public company. But what happens in Utica stays in Utica. LOL about decisions when JC is in Naples. He's there mentally whether or not he's there physically.
 






Is conmed going to use their current sales force to sell the Viking system? Or will Conmed continue to allow current private distributors the ability to continue to sell the Viking 3D HD system? The Viking system seems to be a pretty good product.
 












That is the Cobweb/Linvawreck business plan. First to market, but with an inferior product, or wait and come to the market after it is saturated but with a new inferior product. I believe you have the right word in pathetic.
 






Just came out of sales/training (Endo/Linvawreck) meeting in Largo, FL conducted last week. Wow! Who is leading this company?? No direction, No leadership. I have been here 2 years now and this is the first time that I have walked out of a sales meeting at the begining of the new year scracthing my head not knowing what the Hell we are suppose to do. Should be a very interesting year for ConMed.
 






I'm interviewing for a marketing position at the Conmed Visualization office in Mass. I like the technology and have a couple of years of med device. I have read the posts but would like some serious feedback on whether the dust has settled there. Thanks in advance.
 






Anonymous said:
I'm interviewing for a marketing position at the Conmed Visualization office in Mass. I like the technology and have a couple of years of med device. I have read the posts but would like some serious feedback on whether the dust has settled there. Thanks in advance.
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I have heard the buzz. One of my surgeons has seen it and thought highly of it. I think it being the first one out will let them gain market share before the big guys. I think it is under $200k. Heard Olympus is way over that.
 






Wrong, Storz has had 3D for years, surgeons will not use it because of the glasses, the first company out with a 3D system without the glasses at a reasonable premium will rule, I would put my money on Stryker
 






Anonymous said:
I'm interviewing for a marketing position at the Conmed Visualization office in Mass. I like the technology and have a couple of years of med device. I have read the posts but would like some serious feedback on whether the dust has settled there. Thanks in advance.
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Endoscopy is a very small world and the community is able to paint you a very clear picture of what Viking and Conmed represent. Don't let the hiring manager spoon feed you responses. Do some digging on your own. Ask details about other Conmed marketing groups. Talk to other PMs. They're all brand new at Viking so talk to PMs in Florida, and see if you can find ex-PMs from Santa Barbara. Ask when the last product was released, what is the expected duration between releases, and who supports installs in the field now. Ask to speak to their account managers of their major suppliers. Ask where products are manufactured. Ask about your manager's job history. Talk to the top 5 video Reps. Talk to sales managent of both direct and 1099 channels. There's a lot more you can ask, but if you're smart it will be obvious what to do if you get the truth about any of this.
 


















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