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My favorite thing about this is how it exposes non-scientists to the first (and IMHO most exciting and least appreciated) phase of research - thinking up experi
by wgrover 15y ago
My favorite thing about this is how it exposes non-scientists to the first (and IMHO most exciting and least appreciated) phase of research - thinking up experiments.
- msalzberg 15y agoThanks!
- irollboozers 15y agoGood luck! I'm glad more people like you (VC's) are stepping into the game. And in fact, this is going to require a lot of hands on experience. By the way, have you been a researcher before?
- cing 15y agoIt also exposes your research plan to other scientists when your work is at a stage where it's the easiest to be scooped. I have a science project idea to be crowdfunded, but I'm still a bit skeptical...
- wgrover 15y agoThat's a real risk. But the longer I'm in science, the more I believe that "ideas are cheap, follow-through is everything." If I'm scooped, it's not because someone else had the same idea (probably lots of people had that same idea); it's because I didn't reduce it to practice first. If getting funding from Petridish helps you reduce your idea to practice first, maybe it's worth the risk of getting scooped.