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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”

Both Sides of the Table

How Quibi is a technology platform first and then a content platform Being an investor in LA and having seen a decade’s worth of video startup ideas, one of the reasons many video startups fail is because they think they can just distribute content online the way they’ve done it offline for a hundred years, without the innovation of technology.

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CRISPR Organs? eGenesis Raises $38M For Pig-To-Human Transplants

Xconomy

One of the companies trying to revive the once-failed notion of xenotransplantation has raised a significant round of cash. Spun out of Harvard University in 2014—one of the firm’s cofounders is Harvard’s George Church, a leading geneticist—eGenesis wants to increase the supply of organs for desperate patients.

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Unconventional Collaborators, Like FDA, for Early Adoption of New Technology

Xconomy

Drug development is too expensive, takes too long, and many drug candidates that show promise in preclinical trials end up failing because testing methods don’t predict how they will work in humans. These include artificial intelligence, gene editing, and Organs-on-Chips.

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10 New Venture Factors To Consider Before You Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my edited summary of their ten principles, which I like and may convince you that you don’t need a business plan at all, or at the very least will help you write a better one later: A new venture is a means, not an end. Start with an effectual approach, which evaluates risk tolerance, and suggests more affordable means to an end.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Tough Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these are the ones who had the best handle on their value proposition, the best support from their team, and followed their moral compass, as outlined in a new book, “ True North: Emerging Leader Edition ,” by Bill George and Zach Clayton. Fixing symptoms may be a quick fix, but it fails in the long run.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

socalTECH

In her process of creating that video component, through lost Fedex packages, all of the time spent to come up with the final edit, and all the research that needed to be done, she determined that there seemed to be a real need for a collaborative place where people could come together and create conent.

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Tubestart: Tapping The Power Of The Crowd To Support Online Video

socalTECH

The biggest advantage of that model, is that subscription campaigns can''t expire or fail, and you have every month to build up your subscriber base. We had over 3,500 clips which needed editing and work done to them. However, when we looked at Kickstarter and Indiegogo, we noticed that lots of those web series were failing.

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