biopharma_guy

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 months. I had to keep ignoring it till they completely stopped sending those statements. I went to the local BOA office to complain and the Banker did not give a damn at all. I have a feeling he thought that a tiny customer who just transacts few hundred dollars a month can not affect the bottom line of the bank and ultimately his job. And during that time I kind of felt that sometimes the big bank can play a cruel joke and get away with it on tiny customer like us. You know what , I closed my account went ahead and opened my checking and saving account at a local credit union bank and I can't say how happy I am. Hey, it is your money. But watch out! some big banks are very good at ripping off small customers by charging in fees (nickel and dime, heck now a days they have started charging above 10 dollars forget about nickels and dime). As a small fish you are more vulnerable to big predators in the ocean. So beware. Keep eyes open.

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

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 might possible to start as it is with Startup Chile(startupchile.org). But the long term viability of the ecosystem has to be proven yet.

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 follow putting some time and effort into it. Heck I even can understand ROR up to some extent being from Biotech and Pharma background. First go to railstutorial.org. and try yourself. If you feel you are not motivated enough to pull it off yourself then consider applying for Dev Bootcamp.

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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 for real time web development (it synchronizes the file to server in real time and you see the result right away)

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1. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. 2. Sidhhartha by Herman Hesse.

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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 card and deposit the money that you are supposed to spend. The banks are getting notorious for charging a "monthly fee" and it is going up. So try to look for a credit union near your place for opening an account and as soon as the money on this account vanishes just go ahead and close it. Unless you want to put more than 8k in the account to waive the monthly fees, I do not see a point to keep this account. My 2 cents.

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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 advanced enough to distinguish between items that can be bought (commercials) compared to those can't (human face, nature photographs etc to example a few)?

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 upload and access all files?

2. And Google is late to the game. I have already 5 GB from Amazon and 5 GB from Dropbox and that will be enough for me for a while.

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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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 that can arise only choosing few good genes are optimizing for a developing a tailor made human being. And the ethical challenge is huge too.

How many person's curated genome does the nextbio has? I am just curious.

which language the software is written in?

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 caveats: 1. When I type a product I have to click on search button to get the result. Can it be such a way that only clicking on enter tab should do the search? 2. When I deliberately misspel a drug name it just does not return anything. Does the search engine has auto suggestion method like google's?

Few questions: 1. What will be the revenue model? Will it be a SAAS? 2. Will there be a free version on the web? If yes then how will it be different from paid SAAS service? 3. Will it be limited to drug molecule and genes or it will extend to other categories in future such as scientific literatures and metabolic pathways?

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 out what to do once you leave your job? If not then take some time to plan while in the job and see if you can start something in your niche expertise. Find out that if you have sufficient networking in place to hire few good people from your industry. 2. Have you found any pain point to solve? And how and where to attack? If not, then you can spend next 6 months to do and even if your 8 hr job is soul sucking you still have 16 hrs of your life to make something challenging and fun.

I'm not that experienced but that's what I would do.

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. So I was forced to order paper edition.

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 mean show me a site/blog which has brought so many founders (both successful and unsuccessful) to their knee to spit out their real life experience and I will take your word. And I am sure there are so many niches out there screaming to be exploited in other fields (biotech, pharma, commodities etc).

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/

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 project will offer to the public? Name in the publications? or patents?

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?

Thanks. I have free pass for few days. I will go and explore more.

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 it to market without IP, product validation and Govt approval. However there are small niche product that someone can develop and test it on market. Thanks Chrise for the input

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.

Yes, I have read PG's article about Schlep business and it is a really eye opener for me.

Regarding Bootcamp- I am waiting to see those bootcamper's feedback regarding the bootcamp.If it is highly successful then it is worth every penny and your time. Is not it?

Hackthons- I have no ideas about Hackathons in bay areas. But I will look for it and start attending it.

Yes I have few product ideas for biotech and pharma industry but I do not have enough cash to hire a good programmer. And also I have no clues where and how to find a good programmer. I cound not find your email on your profile. Please shoot me an email. Would like to talk to you more.

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 be clear whether he wants to be a web developer or web entrepreneur but what I think if you are a web developer then developing a web based product is easy (?). May be may be not. I have not gone to that deep end. I have almost started a similar website of yours (Startup frontier) but a different niche. The idea has been pushed to a deep freezer. But thinking of reviving it soon.

But thank for the inputs. Check your email.

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.