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Conference meetings and business plans

20 May 2008

If 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 [...]

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 [...]

The Upside of Down

29 November 2006

Starting reading The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon yesterday on my flight home.  While the author is concerned with the big challenges that face our world, I was able to draw a strong parallel between his premise and the fate of many early stage life-sciences companies.  The author uses the analogy of driving too [...]

Not for Profit Drug Development

10 November 2006

I recently created a Squidoo lens on not for profit drug development companies. Check it out at http://www.squidoo.com/NotForProfitDrugDevelopment/. If you know of others, please let me know.

Convincing somebody to let you develop their technologies part 1

27 September 2006

I’ve been involved in searching for technologies that people are looking to develop and helping them to partner. One challenge that I come across regularly, is why should anyone license their technology to you? To create a win-win situation it is important to have a realistic picture of what both sides are providing [...]

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 [...]

Starting from Technology

12 July 2006

I continue to be amazed at the number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies that are started around a technology that don’t have a clear idea of what they are going to do with the technology or who is going to buy the product at the end of the day. While some technologies definitely deserve [...]

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. [...]

What’s a “Big Enough” goal?

11 June 2006

Had a discussion about goals the other day and we were debating the merits of what is a sufficient goal and how much analysis needs to go into setting a goal and ensuring that it is realistic. It was interesting to debate the issues surrounding this including the loss of time and momentum that [...]