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by gus_massa 1674 days ago
I'm not a VC, but I'm not going to read your half an hour manuscript.

I sometimes read post here that take a long time, but it must be interesting. I'm using a modified version of the Crackpot index https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html but in my version you start with +5 points. So the problem is to get a few negative points before I close the tab.

(Published in Nature or Science is a -1.)

* What can you do now that nobody else can do?

* A nice technical graphic. (Or a table, but I prefer graphics.) I just skip the blah blah and go to the graphic.

* Did you publish it somewhere? Did you published something in the same field? Do you have a successful previous project in the same field?

Perhaps you will have better luck with a technical angel investor that already worked in this area and can skip the first 15 minutes of your summary. (Or at lest skim the first half and ensure it's correct.)

1 comments

This is a hoot...

   Published in Nature or Science is a -1
because it is so true, particularly in areas of science other than molecular biology.