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BIO 2008

7 May 2008

Once again, I’m going to be attending BIO this year.  My focus this year is to expand my network of contacts in the early stage product development space.  As I have done in previous years, I’m going to spend some time in the BIO business forum where I can see some of the early stage [...]

Infectious Diseases Technology Forum

25 April 2007

I’m currently involved in pulling together a one-day forum on infectious diseases.  We’ve taken the approach that the various groups involved in infectious diseases (researchers, government epidemiologists, public health, biotech and pharmaceutical companies, etc) all need to work more closely to ensure that the threat of infectious diseases is kept at bay. If you are [...]

Black boxes - when the output just doesn’t make sense

24 January 2007

Have been in a process the last couple of weeks on a non work related project where we are designing something and then getting a price back which is not consistent with our expectations. The process is very much a black box, both for us and for the designer. We agree on the [...]

Market Analysis

20 August 2006

While looking at many business plans that come across my desk, I’ve noticed that many of the early stage companies don’t have a very thorough understanding of the market that they hope to enter. Obviously, before you can do a quality market analysis, you need to clearly understand your future product (best done by [...]

How many products/technologies per startup?

26 July 2006

I’ve had the opportunity to look at a couple of embryonic stage biotech companies over the past few weeks and found myself asking the question about how many development stage products should be in an early stage company’s portfolio. The companies I looked at ranged from having a single very high risk product in [...]

Too busy to blog

6 July 2006

After starting my new consulting business at the beginning of this year, I thought that I would start slow and then work my way up to being busy. Well, I was wrong. Turns out that I have been much busier than I expected (or even thought possible), which is a good thing. [...]