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Can Sean Parker Hack Cancer?(fortune.com)
1 points by srunni 10y ago|0 comments
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by srunni 10y ago
The Information recently reported on Apple's cloud efforts. They don't seem to be going well: Infighting Slows Apple’s Cloud Engineering Efforts : http://go.theinformation.com/2c8e01 > Two engineering teams wo
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by srunni 11y ago
Facebook executed very well on mobile after their post-IPO slump, while Twitter failed to create an easy onboarding experience that would enable them to move beyond their early adopters (the tech industry, the media industry, and celebritie
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Maturing markets = higher stakes, closing doors(medium.com)
3 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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by srunni 11y ago
There's an export contacts feature, which was restored after removing it resulted in a user backlash ( http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/25/linkedin-brings-back-tool-... ). But if a competitor tried to create
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by srunni 11y ago
> The reason a LinkedIn competitor hasn't emerged is the same reason a viable Facebook competitor hasn't emerged: at this point the network effects are too strong, and it's extremely difficult to beat incumbents because of
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by srunni 11y ago
> Startup CEOs are getting pretty young these days, has your niece been hitting you up for a seed round? http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/06/is-10-too-old-to-be-in-tech...
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by srunni 11y ago
I've been interested in this space for a long time and would love to chat with you - my email address is in my profile.
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by srunni 11y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
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by srunni 11y ago
Another excellent resource is the LifeSciVC blog: https://lifescivc.com/ https://lifescivc.com/category/from-the-trenches/ (the posts here aren't included on the main page)
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by srunni 11y ago
We wanted sustainable innovation, instead we got 144 unicorns.
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Illumina Creating Company to Develop Early-Stage Cancer Detection Test(nytimes.com)
2 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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How Unicorns Grow(hbr.org)
3 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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by srunni 11y ago
There was a recent publication on this subject in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology ( http://news.rice.edu/2015/11/17/blood-test-results-vary-from... ): > Bond and Richards-Kortum found that averagi
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At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags(wsj.com)
131 points by srunni 11y ago|125 comments
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by srunni 11y ago
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543181/crispr-gene-edit...
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by srunni 11y ago
> Let me first say that I don't think we will have human-level AGI by 2030. If we somehow do, all bets are off. If/when human-level AGI becomes reality, the economic impacts will be the least of anyone's concerns: https:&
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by srunni 11y ago
> It would also be a huge win for premature babies, some of which only have 2oz of blood in their entire system. Take a look at Baebies, which is doing exactly this (neonatal screening): http://www.newsobserver.com/news&#
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by srunni 11y ago
My biggest concern with Theranos, which I haven't really seen acknowledged in any of these articles, is that multiparametric panels on asymptomatic individuals will lead to a proliferation of false positives. Running hundreds of tests
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by srunni 11y ago
The founders were interviewed on a recent A16Z podcast: http://a16z.com/2015/12/03/nootropics/
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Andreessen Horowitz’s First Move in Biopharma(blogs.sciencemag.org)
30 points by srunni 11y ago|8 comments
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Do we really need eight solid hours of sleep at night?(statnews.com)
2 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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by srunni 11y ago
I'm not sure what discussion the OP was referring to, but there was a recent publication in the MIT Sloan Management Review: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/did-clay-c... http:/&#
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by srunni 11y ago
Yeah, it's a fragment identifier ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier ) used to track shares/referrals.
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by srunni 11y ago
More details on issues with the UP: > Instead of using a strap attached to a small pod containing the electronics, the hardware was placed throughout the length of the bendable wristband. Spreading the electronics out made the device loo
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by srunni 11y ago
From What Went Wrong at Jawbone ( https://www.theinformation.com/what-went-wrong-at-jawbone ; subscription only): * Employee doubts (lack of direction, CEO frequently absent during fundraising, ex-CFO alleged that CEO misa
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Executives-for-hire help biotech startups get off the ground(statnews.com)
1 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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by srunni 11y ago
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543181/crispr-gene-edit...
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Aspiring biotech entrepreneurs ‘would be crazy’ not to take this Harvard class(statnews.com)
3 points by srunni 11y ago|0 comments
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When Software Eats Bio(a16z.com)
43 points by srunni 11y ago|15 comments

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