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adora

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About adora

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    Comment #32232044

    Potentially sending to China.

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    Comment #32232020

    I emailed Sequencing.com asking what the difference was between them and Nebula Genomics and this is what they wrote back: (1) Nebula is our laboratory partner, and they sequence w…

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    Comment #30769388

    I used Lofta. They were much more interested in selling me their CPAP machines than explaining the results to me. (I was so borderline, CPAP would not be the first treatment anyone…

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    Comment #30326688

    Seems like the more companies like this with varying abilities of marketing to get as widespread outreach the better.

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    Comment #24741498

    It seems you've made up your mind on what the narrative should be. So I'll just stop here for now.

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    Comment #24741175

    I don't like the phrase too much but short answer is intellectual honesty. For example, understanding what went wrong that was probably because of your decisions versus the market,…

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    Comment #24741001

    A 3rd party called Sherwood was brought on to wind down the company. This is common thing for a company to do when there are lots of assets to sell and loose ends to tie up. Everyt…

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    Comment #24736921

    Good news, since then I've found my caps locks key.

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    Comment #24736918

    Ok sure but what was the implication you were trying to make?

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    Comment #24736891

    $40m but who's counting :) I've seen the $66m figure quoted a lot but not sure where it comes from.

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    Comment #24736885

    This actually highlights a big problem we had - aligning expectations of what "clean" meant between a customer and cleaner. Everyone has a different definition!

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    Comment #24736861

    It's true if you have a capital-intensive business, I will ask some of the toughest questions. I do this to figure out where you are in your journey of learning, not to find reason…

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    Comment #19715391

    It's because Ted is not a programmer himself.