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Who say's biotech products have to go via the FDA? There are all kinds of potential markets with lower or non-existent barriers to market, eg my company which m
by technotony 12y ago
Who say's biotech products have to go via the FDA? There are all kinds of potential markets with lower or non-existent barriers to market, eg my company which makes Glowing Plants. These are the areas which make more sense initially as you really can take a lean startup approach to them.
- mkempe 12y agoOf course, some biotech is not aimed at humans. Anything aimed at humans will have to satisfy the FDA, in the US.
- dnautics 12y agohow's that going? You guys said you would deliver in april, but it looks like it's been pushed back to june. There are also very few lab-related blog posts, despite a promise by Mr. Drory in the reddit thread that all intermediate results, both good and bad would be disclosed. Also, he said a budget would be disclosed. I haven't seen one on the site yet. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e5rti/whats_wrong_with_the_glowing_plant_kickstarter/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e5rti/whats_wro... >This will be totally transparent project - we will introduce a novel concept called "constant peer review" - In academia no one publish things that didn't work - we will publish everything. >We take being a good Steward of our backers funds as #1 priority. Our budget will also be publish online and you can see where the money went. Neither of these two things has happened yet.
- technotony 12y agoAre you a backer? We've been sharing this information in the backer updates. Some of this is also to be found on our youtube channel. With respect to the budget we currently have $230,000 left in the bank. We'll publish the financials when we are ready to ship.