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by abeaclark 1629 days ago
Yeah - I considered this. There were probably 10% of people I could tell that wouldn't lead anywhere.

Some of it was trying to not allow my own biases to cloud things. Some of it was hoping to offer a hand up to others who may not get as much attention. Some of it was wanting to just run an experiment and see what happened.

I think the best method is finding a good community to start from. As I alluded to, YC matching has not done this for me.

The other thing is to pay attention to why you didn't like a given cofounder/idea. I identified a handful of industries that just were not for me (hadn't realized this consciously previously)
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vgel 1629 days ago
> I think the best method is finding a good community to start from. As I alluded to, YC matching has not done this for me.

My glean from the article was that Cambrian has a group for this, but they seem to be focused on fintech -- do you know if there's a similar high-quality community for biotech?

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abeaclark 1629 days ago
I wish I did, but it's not my domain of focus.

I've heard good things about OnDeck, but I'm not sure how much biotech is there.

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