Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
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Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
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Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#2I didn't realize Cindy was the driving force behind this. I just need to re-do my video and my project should be ready to launch...
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#4A 3-minute speech... at YC Demo Day.
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#5To tie a funding round to nothing more than a "spirited 3-minute speech" is silly. If I had to guess, Cindy is a fearless founder who has been working hard for a long time to achieve her vision.
This article's title makes it sound like it's as easy as skipping your Starbucks run to found a company and raise $1M+.
Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#6The SF Bay Area community bio labs (BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs [0]) are considering using this platform to try and fund their iGEM team, researching inducing UV resistance in E. Coli and then optimizing it with directed evolution. Community labs have effectively no funding to operate with, so these types of platforms (Experiment, Kickstarter, etc) are incredibly important for them.
If you'd like to support the SF Bay Area community labs and hobbyist biologists trying to do real research without academic and commercial funding, watch the Experiment.com biology section [1] over the next week or two!
[0] http://biocurious.org/ and https://counterculturelabs.org/ [1] https://experiment.com/discover
Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#7Scanning through the website (Experiment.com) I am both surprised and elated at how many projects seem to be 100% funded.
Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#8To tie a funding round to nothing more than a "spirited 3-minute speech" is silly. If I had to guess, Cindy is a fearless founder who has been working hard for a long time to achieve her vision. This article's title makes it sound like it's as easy as skipping your Starbucks run to found a company and raise $1M+.
> If I had to guess, Cindy is a fearless founder who has been working hard for a long time to achieve her vision.
Yup.
Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#9Hah, I went to high school with her. I saw the early Microryza stuff, didn't think much of it. I'm glad it seems to be going well.
Re: Cindy Wu and Experiment.com (YC W13)
#10I shudder to imagine how much the experiment.com domain must have cost.