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0 pointsramraj074y ago0 comments

Why not whittle down 50% of the meetings? Sure you probably can’t guess who to cut out but you could have done 10 meetings, figure out what works for you and cut out the rest accordingly? Good idea still, I’m interested in doing something similar. Do you recommend any methods?

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abeaclark4y 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)

vgel4y 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?

abeaclark4y 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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abeaclark4y ago

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

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)

vgel4y 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?

abeaclark4y 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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