A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders
YC Partner Adora Cheung talks to Science Exchange Co-Founder and CEO Elizabeth Iorns about her experience as a biotech startup founder.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:50 Shift from academic to startup route. Where did the idea come from?
00:03:47 How Science Exchange helps organize the very fragmented market for research?
00:05:54 Was it difficult to make the switch and not work on the one thing that you focused on during research?
00:07:56 Advice for people who want start a startup from a research at University? Sometimes it’s a huge obstacle from universities. How can they navigate?
00:09:08 Do you think there is a overall trend in people moving from academics into startups?
00:11:46 How did you get your first users for Science Exchange marketplace?
00:14:08 What was more difficult – Supply or demand?
00:15:54 Do you remember on the demand side, the very first customer? What were they? What did they do?
00:17:04 So we talked a lot about at Startup School, product market fit. For you what was that like? When did you know you had that? And how did you define it? And what metrics were you looking at?
00:19:51 Reproducibility Initiative (reproduce to validate experiments) - why has this never been done? Was it a money problem or can only Science Exchange solve?
00:23:09 What are the two top two complex factors?
00:25:10 What is the biggest challenge as a CEO of a marketplace company that you have today? And how has that challenge morphed over time?
00:27:03 There has been this implosion of biotech startups recently, especially in Silicon Valley, what do you think that is? What are the causes for this?
00:30:04 Are there any similarities between biotech and software?
00:31:25 What does an MVP mean in biotech?
00:33:13 What has changed that has allowed a small companies product to go-to-market without getting acquired?
00:34:36 Science Exchange is helping speed up experim
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Chapters (18)
Introduction
1:50
Shift from academic to startup route. Where did the idea come from?
3:47
How Science Exchange helps organize the very fragmented market for research?
5:54
Was it difficult to make the switch and not work on the one thing that you focus
7:56
Advice for people who want start a startup from a research at University? Someti
9:08
Do you think there is a overall trend in people moving from academics into start
11:46
How did you get your first users for Science Exchange marketplace?
14:08
What was more difficult – Supply or demand?
15:54
Do you remember on the demand side, the very first customer? What were they? Wha
17:04
So we talked a lot about at Startup School, product market fit. For you what wa
19:51
Reproducibility Initiative (reproduce to validate experiments) - why has this n
23:09
What are the two top two complex factors?
25:10
What is the biggest challenge as a CEO of a marketplace company that you have t
27:03
There has been this implosion of biotech startups recently, especially in Silico
30:04
Are there any similarities between biotech and software?
31:25
What does an MVP mean in biotech?
33:13
What has changed that has allowed a small companies product to go-to-market with
34:36
Science Exchange is helping speed up experim
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