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Biotech Blog Archives: November 2007

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30 November 2007

Venture Capital Returns

At a recent event was recently asked about investment outcomes for venture capitalists. I didn’t have any recent data, so I said that VCs generally expect that 1/3 of their investments will see great returns, 1/3 will see modest or no returns, and 1/3 will not be profitable.
VC Fred Wilson as Union Square Ventures recently [...]

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29 November 2007

Call for Papers: Biotechnology Marketing

Journal of Commercial Biotechnology - Special Issue on Product Innovation Management and Marketing
Focus of the Special Issue
Biotechnology companies are product innovation firms, yet they face a collection of challenges which make it inappropriate to simply apply existing innovation management thinking. For instance, at present relatively few biotechnology firms generate earned income from sales. They [...]

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16 November 2007

Career Development in Biotechnology

I’ll be giving a talk on “Career Development in Biotechnology” next week in the AstraZeneca seminar series at the University of Toronto. More details are available at the MBiotech website.

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6 November 2007

Rethink PCR

Bio-Rad’s got an interesting website up: RethinkPCR.
The company’s name isn’t posted on the front page, but is readily available in the contest terms and conditions and privacy policy. It’s an interesting strategy to acquire consumer intelligence. Of course, consumers don’t always ask for what they want — they tend to ask for incremental improvements rather [...]