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The fast emerging blurring of the lines between traditional VC's roles in funding emerging companies, and the saucy developments in crowd-funding is presented in this compelling article. While crowd-funding typically has funded near-to-market ventures, will it blur further south to pre-product promising discovery funding? That is the high risk high return sweet spot that young tech companies find the most challenging to finance. Watch thus space! http://lnkd.in/gPCsNB View in LinkedIn

Looking for orthopedic strategy experts to consult (in English by videoconferencing) for an innovative and easily implanted Pectus Excavatum device to treat the condition. The company gets the CE Mark this summer, and is evaluating all possible options for trials in the US, and elsewhere, with or without a partner, and a rollout plan fir Europe. Located close to Barcelona. View in LinkedIn

Taking advantage of the excellent research in the UK to further patient care is splendid. Let's hope that success breed success and more money is released. http://lnkd.in/eE98eb View in LinkedIn

After about five years of tough times fir funding biopharma, is this a glint of daylight spurred by recent liquidity? http://lnkd.in/Ytv3s4 View in LinkedIn

Further evidence that the strategy of Big Pharma may be shifting. While they have always had significant investments in Universities, this may be an uptick. Consider the fact that only 25 years ago in the UK and some Universities in the US, such close ties between industry and academia were considered odious, corrupting pure science. Welcome new world! http://lnkd.in/3U9Xwn View in LinkedIn

That emerging and small biopharma companies, or rather, their individual products, will be the future pipelines of big Pharma, appears inevitable. The nimble and efficient smaller companies can create new pharmaceutical" "Products more cheaply and quicker than their giant forerunners. The pattern may be emerging that the Skunk Work companies create, while the Big Guys market. This would be a happy outcome for everyone. http://lnkd.in/NytvX5 View in LinkedIn

Printing On Demand has come of age, after years under the shadow of giants, but my hunch is that it has to be here to stay. Once considered the province of "vanity presses" because they sidestepped the fickle system of the gatekeepers of the big publishing houses, they represent an enormously logical model for book publishing, no longer a warehousing system for first editions. It is also egalitarian, and lets the reading public decide who is successful. The days of the giant publishing houses are, I believe, as numbered as those of the great newspaper enterprises. http://lnkd.in/8FFsi6 View in LinkedIn

Stay posted!" "" "Fellow group members: we will have a survey completed quite shortly, and it will be interesting to see the results. Secondly we have been working on a concrete vehicle to be able to work on some of these issues, so stay posted. I predict 2013 is going to prove to be a catalytic year in our sector! View in LinkedIn

This is an important and thoughtful commentary on cultural differences. http://lnkd.in/3BfJ2s View in LinkedIn

Important to remember this: workaholic lives, mega stress, being bombarded by the world is not the only option for your life on this small blue planet. This has become the paradigm for the US, and I am sad about that. The very concept of balance is not even a serious consideration." "I have to say that after recently moving from San Francisco to Spain, the quality of life questions have resurfaced. While no society is perfect, I watch with fascination as Spaniards continue to seek a quality, balanced, value-centric and family-centric life. Remember. We have options! http://lnkd.in/cFkyPY View in LinkedIn