Archive for 'BIO 2008' Category
Scientists as business people
6 July 2008Finished reading Craig Venters book, “A Life Decoded” the other day. What a great read. I heard Dr. Venter speak at the BIO 2008 meeting and was very inspired. I was very impressed with the passion and intensity that he found driving his life. It would be amazing if more people were able to discover something that [...]
BIO on the Road Posting
16 June 2008I put up a post on the BIO on the Road blog that had some thoughts on the opportunity that is inherent in social networking. I encourage you to check it out and leave some comments.
In a related posting, I was reading an interesting ebook on word of mouth marketing. I’d encourage you to check [...]
I just joined twitter as yet another experiment in social networking. I’ve also joined the BIO2008 group in twitter.
You can see my twitter posts at twitter.com/solalta and the BIO2008 posts at twitter.com/BIO2008. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post on a number of key happenings at BIO this year.
Conference meetings and business plans
20 May 2008If you are going to BIO or any other large conference as an early stage company, you might be thinking about meeting up with investors or partners as part of your dream scenario. While this is definitely possible and does happen, on thing I noticed when I was at conferences as an investor, was that [...]
