In a time when people are stressed about their jobs and doing what they have to in order to survive, it is a comfort to be working with a select group of individuals who can stay calm under pressure and work as a team to get the job done in a professional manner. My...
I have been fielding these same questions from my GP, LP and other industry colleagues: • “What do you think about the ILPA Principles?” (soft voice) • “How do you think it will affect my business?” (worried voice) • “They don’t...
Nice economy we’re having, eh? How’s your company weathering this economic storm? Picture the familiar scenario of a slowly sinking ship with its occupants desperately throwing valuables overboard to lighten the load. Were you one of the valuables? Has...
The other day I was reading an interesting article on Defensive Due Diligence by Claudine Cohen, Mendy Dwestel and Andrew Finkle (all from Grant Thornton) in the January 2010 of Mergers & Acquisitions publication of the Association for Corporate Growth. They make...
It seems my industry colleagues have been wrongly optimistic and also hyper cynical. At least that is the bottom line of the read I get in comparing the analysis of the 2nd annual Semaphore Confidence Survey with last year’s results. And some people have very...
The Valley of Death for a Life Sciences company is that space, as coined by the NCI’s Director of Small Business Innovation Research Programs Michael Weingarten, between a Phase 2 SBIR grant and the commercial success of the technology that is being funded and...
