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Rakuten Aspyrian Finds $150M For Cancer Treatments

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San Diego-based biotechnology developer Rakuten Aspyrian announced last week that it has raised $150M for its efforts to develop treatments for head and neck cancer. According to the company, the new funds will go towards advancing its lead compound, ASP-1929, into Phase 3 clinical trials. Miguel Garcia-Guzman, Ph.D.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.