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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. However, such alignment is missing at most tech startups, and thus there is little causality between a celeb’s investment and their ability to drive meaningful product adoption. What’s the cause of this incongruence? Share and Enjoy.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Where was the technology for this developed? The onus for us is really about the technical validation of the assay.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

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And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. Talk about sacrifice. If drug approval were an Olympic sport, rejections would also be high drama.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

In a growing tech business, you ideally want to have a ratio of 3:1 or greater of LTV/CAC. Net Promoter Score. The net promoter score is the most common measurement of the quality of the product experience. The net promoter score is the most common measurement of the quality of the product experience.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

In a growing tech business, you ideally want to have a ratio of 3:1 or greater of LTV/CAC. Net Promoter Score. The net promoter score is the most common measurement of the quality of the product experience. The net promoter score is the most common measurement of the quality of the product experience.

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Startups Should Focus On Their Net Profit Score Not Potential Promoters

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. However, rather than obsessing on a single metric, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score.

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Bio Roundup: Clinical Shirkers, AMD Worriers, ASH Fallers & More

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—Doctors testing a combination of two immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors, nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy), reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that two melanoma patients in the trial died of heart problems. —Several other biotechs released ASH abstract data, and the net effect was a drop in most stocks.