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danieltillett on Jan 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harr...

It sounds like you are trying to build a kickstarter version of the NIH. The way to get this going is to offer real money to both the academics and the administrators - once you do this then they will come running to you with open arms.

Can I suggest that you spend the next month reading Derek Lowe’s blog “In the Pipeline” [1] (especially all the comments). You will learn why so much never makes it out of the lab.

1. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

samirunni on Jan 23, 2016 [–]

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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