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How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by inglor_cz »

ipsum2 wrote: post #39

Sounds like they're just commercializing the work done by the Dog Aging Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Aging_Project .

Everyone builds on work of someone else. A lot of scientific research fails to translate to commercially viable product; that is not a trivial task.

Plus, in this precarious phase, further discoveries are possible. Few things work exactly the same way in labs and in the real world. Usually, some anomalies are observed that actually widen our understanding of the problem.

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by graderjs »

doggodaddo78 wrote: post #145
a_bonobo wrote: post #78

>It’s a VC’s job to keep the door open. Many were ‘blown away’, then passed before the second meeting. This is normal. I'm sometimes working with US-Americans and not being US-American myself, I feel like this is also a US-cultural thing? In important meetings with US stakeholders I struggle to read the room because everything is always 'awesome' and 'amazing', there's rarely upfront criticism. Honest feedback has to…

Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…

Its effects can't be that disastrous though. The US tech scene is still the best in the world. China is pretty close though.

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by Grustaf »

throwaway77112 wrote: post #131
ipsum2 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Just", because the blog post sounds like it was doing fundamental basic research on longevity based on brand new ideas ("I was chatting with some friends about how I thought I had an idea for how to make dogs live longer."), instead of commercializing on existing research. It wasn't my intention to be dismissive.

Very early on in the article she says she 'did not discover the science behind the company'.

So ipsum is correct?

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by Grustaf »

woeirua wrote: post #87

Kudos to her for landing investors for this idea, but her plan was actually to optimize her pitch for potential investors, and given enough pitches she eventually found a few who pulled the trigger. To me, this is not really a sign of a strong idea for a company, but rather a sign of a good saleswoman . I would expect companies with much better, stronger concepts to land funding much faster. Also, I think most people…

Running a company, especially a startup, is 80% about good salesmanship.

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by fnord123 »

graderjs wrote: post #173
doggodaddo78 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…

Its effects can't be that disastrous though. The US tech scene is still the best in the world. China is pretty close though.

When metrics are you using?

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by fasteo »

nradov wrote: post #123
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #50

>Loyal is developing drugs to extend dog lifespan and healthspan. Wow this is a huge undertaking. I wish you luck and I don't mean that sarcastically! If you can do that to a dog, it seems trivial to extend to humans. Have any drugs or supplements extended dog lifespan in the literature? Rapamycin I guess?

So far it doesn't look like Rapamycin will be very effective for human life extension. https://peterattiamd.com/richardmiller/

Doctor Alan Green[1] would disagree

[1] https://rapamycintherapy.com/

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by navane »

Grustaf wrote: post #174
throwaway77112 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very early on in the article she says she 'did not discover the science behind the company'.

So ipsum is correct?

Not right in using 'just'. It is not a gotcha as she admits it herself.

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by apples_oranges »

kqvamxurcagg wrote: post #155
doggodaddo78 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done. More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too…

There's a couple of books in this comment.

I am interested in those books. Can you list some?

Re: How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

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Post by pjerem »

samatman wrote: post #140
pjerem wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you loved all of your dogs, maybe you would have miss something if you kept cloning the first one ad vitam. Would you have preferred your second dog to be an imperfect copy of the first ?

"Imperfect" is unnecessarily moralistic here. A clone is nothing more, and nothing less, than a time-shifted identical twin. I probably wouldn't clone my dog for that reason: it's not "getting my dog back" it's having his identical twin. But I grant that identical twins are very similar to one another, so if you like your dog's look and personality, the clone would probably be a lot like his twin. So I don't judge pe…

> "Imperfect" is unnecessarily moralistic here.

I really not intended to be moralistic, i was just reusing your wording. Sorry

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