Setting a pre-money valuation is always an interesting step in the funding process. I’ve seen potential deals quickly unwind as a result of an entrepreneur standing firm on an irrationally perceived valuation, or an unsophisticated angel investor(s) setting a seed round price that is misaligned with the venture community. It is always a terrible shame [...]

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The pros from PureTech Ventures (Boston), Accelerator Corp (Seattle) and BioAdvance (Philadelphia) spent some time yesterday setting the table of today’s current early-stage biotech investing climate and proceeded to illuminate some absolutely critical elements to incorporate while on the fund-raising trail. Without a doubt the present day funding gap or ‘valley of death’ is real [...]

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Fitzsimons BioBusiness Partners (FBBp) is the premier business development organization serving the Colorado bioscience community. The Mission of FBBp is: To nurture and grow viable and sustainable bioscience businesses in order to establish a global position for the bioscience industry in Colorado, with its epicenter at the Colorado Science + Technology Park @ Fitzsimons. The [...]

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Thanks to Larry Nelson and W3W3 for producing this fantastic interview with Rick Silva, acting Director of Fitzsimons BioBusiness Partners, Inc. (FBBp). Interview excerpt: Dr. Silva says, “It takes broad and incredibly specialized skills to build a biomedical product. Ours is the most regulated industry on Earth. Our products are among the most complex to [...]

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Fitzsimons BioBusiness Partners, Inc. (FBBp) has launched a new website (here). Please take a look at the information booklet. If you are working with or contemplating a start-up in the therapeutic, diagnostic, vaccine, device or bioinformatics space FBBp may function to accelerate what you have cooking in the lab towards commercialization. You may also observe [...]

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