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Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs

Xconomy

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Losses in over-capitalized “vintage years” over the last two decades have left institutional investors (e.g.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

City officials and one dockless mobility executive told me that scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets do to lack of demand. The city recently launched a one-year dockless on-demand personal mobility program. Tiny but mighty micromobility. Case in point, Austin during SXSW.