The coolest thing about Counsyl is that it's taking the tech startup philosophy and ideas and applying them to biology. Software is eating the world, and Counsy

The coolest thing about Counsyl is that it's taking the tech startup philosophy and ideas and applying them to biology. Software is eating the world, and Counsyl is bringing that to a new--and very important--arena. An added benefit is that much of what Counsyl does does not depend on the actual biology behind it. I attended one of their infosessions at Berkeley, and I remember a whole bunch of jobs like managing supplies and billing that are simultaneously nontrivial and unrelated to the actual domain. I've never much liked biology personally, so that's very promising. If you want to work on something meaningful but don't really like genetics or medicine, Counsyl still seems like a great option.