Last week was 3 consecutive days of pitches, 3 different settings, 3 different audiences. I heard a lot of great ideas in a wide variety of styles. Some were more sales-focused, some more data-focused. Some founders were nervous, others strode out with confidence. The diversity [...]
I am looking forward to Indie Bio’s demo day this week. I work with a number of the companies there. The excitement and the tension has mounted as the big day approaches. This is the day each company will have a short public presentation [...]
Ok, I confess. I took a week off. I write one short blog each week, sometimes informational in nature, other times comprised of my observations and musings. It’s more for my own writing experience. Or at least as a personal goal, that is why I [...]
It’s the fall season now. No, I am not talking about fashion. And although in SF, fall actually means the summer weather we didn’t get to see in the traditional months, it’s not the seasonal fluctuations that I’m addressing. The fall season for me is [...]
Entrepreneurship is rarely a one-person do-it-all-yourself enterprise. Many journeys are peppered with encounters with others who gave advice, lent a helping hand (and money), and provided services at low or no charge early in the start-up’s development. A good example of this was on display [...]
Listening to a podcast in my ever-growing queue this week, I heard an interview with the CEO of Segment, a tech company that provides a platform for communicating data to a variety of analytic tools. The part of the story that caught my attention came [...]
Labor day just went by and for me that has always marked the end of summer, or at least the end of that summer-vacation feeling. After labor day is typically when I went back to school. Those days have long gone by for me. Yet, [...]
Healthcare is a highly regulated industry and therefore regulatory planning plays a crucial role for many life sciences startups. Most therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices undergo review by a regulatory agency such as the FDA in the U.S. and the EMA in Europe. For [...]
The death of Aretha Franklin worked its way into all facets of news this past week. Not just entertainment news, but political reporters, social activists and people from many walks of life commented on her impact. The outpouring of sadness at her passing reminds [...]
I started doing the Headspace meditation app last fall. One recent practice struck me as I was thinking about the journeys entrepreneurs take to start up a company - making some space between yourself and your thoughts and emotions. This mental distance has its place in [...]
