Parking some Swiss biotech 101 stuff and
a little more on Seattle VC.
A roundup of the Swiss biotechnology industry
Rathin C. Das, June 2000
iscpubs.com
Soundly defeated the gene protection initiative
a couple years ago.
Another essay
interpharma.ch
It was Serono that took out Genset,
so I try to keep a lazy eye on that one.
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What else was I looking at today, Frazier is here
in Seattle, and so is OVP--but Olympic Venture Partners
is not doing biotech.
A bit of a trend back to widgets and software--pullback
from biotech. This statement is trying to put it
delicately I guess?
ovp.com
Surprised they made so little off of RSTA--just 20M.
seattlepi.nwsource.com
This VC stuff is kind of interesting. I guess a
nice niche for movers and shakers, folks who are
well connected, hip, intelligent and all that.
We do not see too many people like that at the
weather office, heheh. I certainly do not mingle
with those, ah, present company excepted of course.
Have to remember to ask my programmer buddy if he
has ever approached a VC firm--done up a business
plan and all that. Brian, you lurking?
I have often thought it would be fun to do a
very small weather forecasting outfit--but I
can't see a way to make money at it. Too much
stuff available for free. Heck, the models are
all online, and radar and sat imagery are all
on the web. And of course very specialized
forecasts are not likely to have any skill. |
