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RAPID AND CHEAP GENOME SEQUENCING FOR STOPPING MRSA OUTBREAKS. A great example of the power of sequence date to help solve public health problems. http://lnkd.in/ybZ3-A View in LinkedIn

HIGH FIDELITY GENE EDITING development with broad implications. Watch this space. http://lnkd.in/w3SUf4 View in LinkedIn

TOP BIO CLUSTER CITIES is rather US-centric, and might also be expanded to include up-and-coming cities like Barcelona, London, and clusters in Taiwan, Japan, India, Singapore, Saudi, and China. Let us not forget that China is building whole new "medical cities", and already has significant clusters in places like Shanghai. These emerging clusters already have critical mass. The world is shrinking, so our horizons should expand. http://lnkd.in/iHsRQ2 View in LinkedIn

CROWDFUNDING FOR BIOTECH? Read this informative article. In my view, the trajectory is inevitable. Clarify "qualified investor", close the gate to disclosure issues, and have a syndicate of thousands of investors represented by one voice, and the floodgate will be opened, not only in Bio, but in Tech broadly, the traditional hunting ground of VCs. Another flatter-earth initiative. http://lnkd.in/ret84a View in LinkedIn

VALUABLE COMMON SENSE TIPS FOR BIOTECH CEOs. A must-read. http://lnkd.in/ftGa4M View in LinkedIn

"WORK EXPANDS TO FILL THE TIME AVAILABLE FOR ITS COMPLETION" is Professor Northcote Parkinson's law. It describes the observation that busy people have time to spare. Busy people tend to organize their work efficiently, because they have to. I leaned to swim in his Guernsey UK swimming pool and never forgot this gem of wisdom. Apply it to your life and see the results. View in LinkedIn

THE COMPENSATION OF THE CEO IN PUBLIC COMPANIES is under the constant scrutiny of watchdog groups. The public company Comp Committee must determine an appropriate peer group as a comparator, and justify its percentile ranking of Executive compensation and board compensation within that comparable group. This is sufficiently complex today that hiring an expert Group to advise the committee has become necessary. Failure to do this can result in undue exposure. View in LinkedIn

CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS are the scourge of being a public company, and the majority of the time, it is scurrilous lawyers shaking the tree hard to see how much money they can get. These practices cost large sums of money and are a big management distraction. It used to be said that only Russians ate their children. But look closely at this bottom-fishing practice dressed as a White Knight, and I am sure you will arrive at a similar conclusion. Being a publicly traded company is not easy. View in LinkedIn

STEERING COMMITTEES ARE VALUABLE FOR OUTSIDE RELATIONSHIPS. Say you form a R&D partnership with a big company who funds your research in return for an Option. A Steering Committee is critical to establish criteria for success, and to determine a decision tree for all possible data outcomes. You need to protect yourself from a bad result leading to a surprise termination of the relationship, an event that can be at worst disasterous, and at best very hard to manage. You need to be jointly managing these expectations and be on the same page at every step. View in LinkedIn

IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR A CRITICAL EVENT TO HAPPEN, most new investors will also await the news. You are obliged to reveal material pending events, so you cannot hide it from them. Thus you can easily be caught in a double-bind if the critical event is beyond your control. View in LinkedIn