Hybrid business model vigor
In these Malthusian times of decreasing grant resources, the once character-building exercise of shaping hypotheses and insights into experimental aims…
Ethan O. Perlstein
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The Academia-Pharma Complex
I provocatively call the nexus of government research and regulatory agencies, university biology departments and medical schools, and drug companies…
Anatomy of a crowdfund: after the dust settled
Last Monday, November 26th, I and my team successfully concluded our 52-day grassroots campaign to raise $25,000 for a Small…
You just crowdfunded a research meth lab!
On Saturday morning November 24th, our 52-day grassroots campaign to crowdfund basic biomedical research, which we dubbed Crowdsourcing Discovery, began…
Anatomy of a crowdfund: the homestretch
We are in the final week of campaigning for Crowdsourcing Discovery! As of this writing, we’ve raised $18,246 from 258…
Anatomy of a crowdfund, week 5: content or connection?
As of this writing, we’ve raised $15,040, or 61% of our goal of $25,000! Fortunately, our campaign was extended by…
Can your Facebook network finance your dream project?
Two weeks ago I started playing with Gephi, an open source network graph generator. Here is the first network graph…
Anatomy of a crowdfund, week 4: feast or famine
The big news for Crowdsourcing Discovery in our fourth weekly progress report – other than Frankenstorm – was we reached…
Anatomy of a crowdfund, week 3: slow and steady
It took us 23 days, but we finally crossed the $10,000 mark! We are now officially in the second half…
Anatomy of a crowdfund, week 2: branding and networks
I’m happy to report that as of last Friday (Oct 19th), which marked the 1/3 point in our 45-day crowdfunding…