Fri.May 22, 2020

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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Yet if you are on the other side of the table, there are some other key questions that you need to ask, which will tell you more about the real success prospects for this business.

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Generation Bio Leads a Trio of Biotech Companies Aiming for the Nasdaq

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COVID-19 has ravaged the economy, and it was expected to quash the IPO market, too. But the biotech sector is defying the pandemic with crossover financings and freshly minted public companies. On Friday, three firms added their names to the list of life science companies preparing to join the public markets. Gene therapy company Generation Bio, vaccines developer Vaxcyte, and cancer diagnostics maker Burning Rock Biotech each filed IPO paperwork just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

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Ingram Micro Offers Up Financing, Credit To Partners In Europe

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Irvine-based technology distributor Ingram Micro is looking to help its technology channel partners in Europe, who have been hit by cash flow challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a new suite of financing options. According to Ingram Micro, it has rolled out new low interest and long term financing, extended credit terms, deferred payments, as-a-service models, and pay-as-you-go options for its customers.

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FDA Approves Evofem?s ?On-Demand? Non-Hormonal Birth Control Gel

Xconomy

While treatments for many health conditions have undergone reinvention in the past two decades, birth control options haven’t changed much. On Friday, San Diego-based Evofem Biosciences said it received FDA approval for a new kind of contraceptive: a non-hormonal vaginal gel intended for use directly before intercourse. The drug, a combination of lactic acid, citric acid, and potassium bitartrate (Phexxi, formerly named Amphora), is designed to keep vaginal pH within its typical range.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Zadara Partners with Cyxtera

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Irvine-based storage-as-a-service provider Zadara said this week that it has partnered with data center colocation and interconnection provider Cyxtera. According to Zadara, its fully managed storage-as-a-service is now available in 62 of Cyxtera's data centers worldwide. Financial details of the partnership deal were not announced. Zadara offers up its storage to enterprises, helping them avoid the usual capital expenditures associated with enterprise storage array purchases; the company only c

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Bio Roundup: mRNA Vaccine Data, Rise of Rallybio, Roche’s Protein Play & More

Xconomy

As the nation started to reopen this week following two months of closed businesses and stay-at-home orders, public health officials and economists cautioned that society won’t truly return to anything resembling a pre-pandemic normal without a COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA ) moved one step closer to filling that need with the release of preliminary Phase 1 data for its messenger RNA vaccine candidate.

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SiFi Networks Finds $50M

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SiFi Networks , which develops open access fiber optic networks, which it offers up to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), says it has received $50M to build out its network in the United States. The company--which has one of its offices in El Segundo--said it will use the funding for recruitment and training of industry specialists, to help it expand its deployments.