Leadership

Notes on planning, valuation & capital

Written notes on long-range planning, valuation and capital allocation in life sciences — how to build a plan leadership believes, how to risk-weight a pipeline, and how to price a decision before capital is committed.

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A scientist pipetting samples into a microplate at a laboratory benchFinanceHow to build a scalable business model successfully.Scalability shows up in the gross margin line long before it shows up anywhere else. Here is how to model it honestly.Read How to build a scalable business model successfully.
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