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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? Quite a few of the teams were building biotech, devices or digital health products. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

Steve Blank

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. BCN is developing a drug that increases anti-cancer effect of radiation in lung cancer (and/or reduces normal tissue damage by at least 40%). That’s what happened to Affinity.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Biggest thing for me not on your list is more tax advantages to starting up a company self-funded.

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