biopharma_guy

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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
I have gone through the same pain with BOA and finally I had to close my account last year. But the funny/upsetting thing is that even if I closed my account, BOA kept on sending monthly statement charging those monthly fees for several mon
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Start with this. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html Once you have some idea then you can go ahead with this. http://railstutorial.org In addition, watch the webcasts http://railscasts.org
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Nope. A place has to be a right amalgamation of good universities (where the talent will come from), with good transportation and basic infrastructure and the last thing comes 'weather'. Yes with lot of cash and political will power it migh
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
If you have a Bachelor and Master in Comp. Sc. then you should first give it a shot by trying yourself before entering to Dev Bootcamp. There are several amazing ruby on rails guides and resources which I think you will have no problem to f
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Sublime 2 for programming and coda for web development. I have recently started using Sublime 2 and like it. It is light weight with tons of features.You can use several plugins used in textmate as well as other text editors. And Coda I use
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Two classic books that you should read 1. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. 2. Sidhhartha by Herman Hesse. Extra read 3. The millionaire Fast Lane by MJ Demarco. And so many others...
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
You could also use the money to buy your basic necessity expenses and deposit the money coming from your other sources to another account. I am sure you have some bills to pay (rent, food, groceries, laundry etc). Pay all these with that ca
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Go to this thread below and grill yourself with these 34 questions. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121 You perhaps will find yourself where you are in the application. By the way, the idea is cool. But does your algorithms advan
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
I did not for following reasons. 1. I do not want to keep installing software on my system especially on my office computer. Why not Google came out with a G Drive similar to Amazon where you do not have to install anything but still can up
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
Is there a way to use the Google drive without installing the software onto my computer? My employer does not allow me to install any software to the office computer.
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
There are technological issue and then there are ethical issues. I can say we are several decades away from making a baby just by stitching raw genome data. There are 30,000 genes in human genome. Think the number of possible combinations t
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
How many person's curated genome does the nextbio has? I am just curious.
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by biopharma_guy 14y ago
which language the software is written in?
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Ask HN: Anybody reading the Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank?
1 points by biopharma_guy 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Anybody finished reading Startup owner's Manual? How is it?
1 points by biopharma_guy 15y ago|0 comments
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
This is a great product. Being a biopharma guy I can say it has a lot of potential. My suggestions is to push this product aggressively to launch globally so that you will have a threshold number of users to survive the startup. Couple of c
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
If you are making $300k/yr then I can say you are providing some real value to the company otherwise it wouldn't pay that obscene amount of money to an employee. I will take cjbprime's suggestions. 1. Do you have a specific plan carved ou
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
I have pre-ordered through Barnes & Noble. So far I haven not heard anything yet. I think it is going to be late for us. Really wanted the kindle format. But from Steve's blog I found out they are not releasing e-book in any near future
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
I have been watching Mixergy for last two years as a non programmer and I can say it is worth watching. It has forced me to think what entrepreneurship is and motivated me to learn programming. If you criticize then do it constructively. I
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
There are several. One is forum on careers by sciencemag.org http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/ http://scforum.sciencecareers.org/ Also you can go to the following blogs which are interesting. http://pipeline.corante.com/
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
1. There will be bureaucratic issue for a researcher seeking funding from public. 2. There will be patent issue ( who will own the patent?). 3. Unlike kickstarter where the contributor gets a finished product at the end, what does this proj
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
Great timing. I have recently started learning ROR and I would like to know how the course will be structured. Will it be a form of webinar or screencast?
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
Thanks. I have free pass for few days. I will go and explore more.
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
Biotech and Pharma market is with log of $$$. But there are too many regulations and it takes lot of time and resources to develop a product that a cucstomer can use. You just can nt develop a drug,diagnostic or an instrument and then ship
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
Thanks for the information. 1. I have only seen part 1. I am going to watch the 2nd part soon. 2. I am afraid to watch too many tutorials at a time. It will be hard for me to assimilate all. But I will keep it in my inventory and watch it.
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
You are right upto some extent. But what I hear from great founders (such as PG,BFeld etc) is that to go and learn to code yourself. In that way you are not under mercy of a developer to bring out your product. I agree that someone needs to
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by biopharma_guy 15y ago
I agree with you.But to build something I need the the skill and that is why I have started learning programming. I would love to hear about your ideas. THe email is on the way.
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Ask HN: From biotech industry to web technology: how and where should I start?
9 points by biopharma_guy 15y ago|12 comments

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