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by rfc 8y ago
Bit on the weirder submissions for YC but our family genome sequencing facility is generating more than $500/mo on the side. Currently growing at over 100% YOY (somewhere around 26% QOQ), closed out our last month at over $23k, and on
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by rfc 8y ago
There was no contract between Facebook and Crimson Hexagon regarding data. All data mined was publicly available to anyone.
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by rfc 9y ago
Will do!
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by rfc 9y ago
Our company is called The Sequencing Center. https://www.thesequencingcenter.com We're located in Fort Collins, Colorado which is great for low overhead costs! I'll send you a note. Thanks!
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by rfc 9y ago
Awesome, we'd appreciate any connection. I'll reach out to you from my work email.
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by rfc 9y ago
Our customers are academic, pharmaceutical, and clinical research. We don't do any direct-to-consumer sequencing since we're not currently HIPPA compliant. We also only have an Illumina MiniSeq which is really designed for bacteri
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by rfc 9y ago
We're located in Colorado actually. Low rent makes for cheaper rates for our customers. What's ironic is that even though UCSD has one of the premier genomics cores in the world, their lead time and prices are astronomical. We con
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by rfc 9y ago
We're an all-inclusive service provider (currently), meaning that researchers simply send their samples in and get insights back. We take care of the DNA extraction, sample QC, library prep, sequencing, bioinformatics, and data storage
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by rfc 9y ago
100% agree. There's a lot of regulatory hurdles in that field but, much like what SpaceX did, if you can find ways to disrupt it, the disruption is 10-100x better than current state.
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by rfc 9y ago
Completely agree. A lot of the big VCs are investing in the fundamental biology side of it. However, there is so much room for advancements in the equipment, gene panels, automation, lab analytics, etc. As an example, we just bought a devic
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by rfc 9y ago
Just adding my own slight perspective here. We launched a bootstrapped genome sequencing facility August last year. With barely any advertising and word of mouth, we're clearing around 8% MoM revenue growth and are forecasting ~$350k-4
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by rfc 9y ago
Jumping on the bandwagon here. We use Uberconference and absolutely love it. Audio is crystal clear and haven't had any issues with it.
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by rfc 9y ago
Reading Zero to One as I write this. I find that reading it each year provides a nice jolt of focus.
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by rfc 9y ago
Businesses are in the business of making money. It's the founders job to ensure that they make money. Also, quoting just "Money's sexy I guess" is taking this entirely out of context. You quoted a specific section to mak
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by rfc 9y ago
I'm sure I'll get down voted for this comment but yes, I actually do think this result is available to everyone willing to work hard but not the only reason. The town I grew up in was very polarizing. We had both extreme wealth an
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by rfc 9y ago
This. 1,000x. Some of the most successful folks I know went into trade, became "masters of their domains", and then bridge their skills with business to create their own businesses. As an example: A friend from back home got into
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by rfc 10y ago
Problem: Researchers and scientists have to go to multiple vendors to get true end-to-end genome sequencing performed. Project: We created The Sequencer Center. We provide next generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and data management all
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by rfc 10y ago
I don't mean for this comment to come off as condescending but if you think that all a PM does is "come up with features and an MVP" and have people build it, then I think you ought to really go talk to multiple PMs to get th
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by rfc 10y ago
Have a somewhat unconventional route to becoming a PM. Project Manager -> Product Marketing -> Product Management Personally, demonstrable skills that I look for in PMs: 1) Ability to quickly execute on the short term but always keep
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by rfc 10y ago
Ah yes! Apologies. Stripe is the one. Thanks!
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by rfc 10y ago
I spent a few minutes searching but couldn't find the link. IIRC, Airbnb was testing out hiring full teams. It was a pilot program and I'm not sure if it's still going on. If you know anyone there, I'd reach out to ask.
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by rfc 10y ago
I met with a company recently that started out on the clinical side doing fMRI brain imaging. They currently house the nations largest private dataset and have some very compelling sub-datasets in various areas, such as Parkinsons, ADHD, Al
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by rfc 10y ago
Awesome, thanks so much for the response. It's clearer now the behind the scenes on what you're doing so appreciate you sharing. You're effectively providing a much needed and critical clinical tool for making more informed d
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by rfc 10y ago
Hi Elad, First off I want to say that I appreciate the drive to work on problems like this. I personally think it's a much better use of money than funding yet another marketing tool to 'revolutionize push notification blah blah&#
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by rfc 10y ago
Agree. This was my initial reaction as well. While I can appreciate the founders background in Cancer research and drive to do something about the problem, the solution is unfortunately not a "just apply computer science!" one. We
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by rfc 10y ago
Sorry you've had such a bad experience. My experience varies as others have mentioned in the thread. I've worked at companies where we had accrued days off and it was a nightmare. Any time we took vacation was met with scrutiny. I
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by rfc 10y ago
Moved from CO to BOS basically on a whim. Was stuck in a lower paying job and just felt like I needed to start over. After a business trip to BOS, I said f-it and started applying to jobs. Got one a couple months later, packed up everything
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by rfc 10y ago
I have two: quitting college at the height of the recession (08') and switching jobs a couple of times in a few years to increase my paycheck 4x. I hustled my ass off, worked super manual jobs during the day, focused on networking and
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by rfc 11y ago
I built a really basic genome analysis pipeline. It's a super hacked together tool with the hopes of helping doctors make more data driven decisions on diagnosing patients based on empirical data: the individuals genome. I got a very b
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by rfc 11y ago
Been talking/planning it for a few months but broke ground over the holiday break. I'm working on creating an accelerated genomics data pipeline. Core focuses is on the following: 1) Accelerating the genome alignment process from

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