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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. That keeps people from pushing themselves to develop the kind of new solutions that will permanently change the business for the better, versus short-term band-aids.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

PRICE FIGHTS. With some caveats, ICER recommended lower prices. —Sarepta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SRPT ) struck a second deal in as many weeks to develop combination therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Territorial Acquisitions” by Joaquin Martinez via Creative Commons. Image “U.S.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.