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Decisions on the road and on the project team: the mixed value of “notions”
We are pleased and honored to have Dr. Emily Walsh post a guest post here at BiotechStart about her experiences. This one in particular relates to the importance of clearly assessing which notions an...
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Discussion on Lean Biotech Startup
I had the recent pleasure of speaking to James Eaves’ MBA class at the Universite Laval. We discussed biotechnology entrepreneurship and the concepts of the Lean Biotech Startup. Here’s a video...
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Entrepreneurship and Chess
This is an odd topic for an article, but I thought I would write it regardless. I tend to see parallels between otherwise unrelated things, so I am either insightful or grasping at straws. One such...
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Financial reporting for life science start-ups (part 1)
Seeing as I am an accountant by trade, I figured it was about time that I write an article about financial (and non-financial) reporting for life science start-ups. As most visitors to this site come...
View ArticleInterns are the new best friend of the lean biotech startup
It was really painful to see promising bioentrepreneurs in Boston struggling to find the specialized facilities, mentors and community to take their innovative ideas and bring them to market. We...
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MDs as Angel Investors?
If the customer is always right, then why not make them an investor? This might seem like an obvious statement, but I think it has powerful implications for start-ups in the innovation space looking...
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BiotechStart Conversations – Michael Koeris of Sample6
I am happy to announce the first instalment of our BiotechStart Conversations. In these, I will be interviewing a wide range of biotechnology entrepreneurs with the aim of understanding how others...
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Synthetic Biology Startup Bonanza: Biotechstart @SynBioBeta
Now in it’s second year, the startup conference focusing on Synthetic Biology or SynBio will be held in SF. Yours truly will be giving a short update talk but mostly it’s about the various...
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Life Science Start-Ups: Financings, Modelling and Valuations
In December of 2013, I was invited to give a presentation to a group of MD and PhD researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, which is one of the largest research hospitals in Canada. The is...
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Should You Be Starting a Startup?
A version of this post will be published on SynBioBeta. Let’s call it like it is. Being in startups and better yet being a founder has been the hot ticket for a while now. A lot has been written about...
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