Instead of cold-emailing high-profile individuals for advice (a "take"), create a platform like a podcast. This reframes your request as an opportunity for them to gain publicity, making them far more likely to engage with you. You become a "giver" instead of a "taker."
Beyond vetting a startup's science, investors must perform meticulous legal due diligence. A guest's firm was scammed by investing in a similarly named shell company (an LLC) instead of the legitimate firm (a limited partnership), resulting in a total loss of their investment.
A powerful strategy for students is to repurpose high-quality academic work from their classes. By sending a paper to a relevant faculty member, you can find unexpected publication outlets and get noticed by established researchers, as this guest did to get published in The Lancet.
To be a successful and well-funded researcher, concentrate on diseases with broad public impact and recognition. These "hot button issues" are more likely to secure grant funding and land in high-impact publications compared to rarer, less-known conditions because they resonate with a wider audience.
Early-stage biotech investing is less about quantitative analysis, as companies lack cash flow for traditional valuation. The primary skill is identifying founders who lack deep domain expertise, citing Y Combinator founders who didn't understand the CPT billing codes their company was based on.
Apply financial forecasting techniques to large patient databases. By treating individual patient data points like historical stock prices, researchers can build complex regression models to project future health outcomes, an innovative approach that earns recognition from national medical academies.