Converting biologists, one step at a time.
I hate hearing my own voice on tape. It’s even more painful to see myself being interviewed. But I have decided to own this one.
I mentor digital health projects at the Berlin Institute of Health. I specialise in AI, pharma, and behavioural products. The video is highly edited, but I still own it.
I took part in Entrepreneur First’s (EF’s) first Berlin cohort last summer. I have largely refrained from talking about my experience, even in private so far, but this hasn’t prevented a lot of people from giving me their opinions on the business model of EF.
The EF hypothesis sounds simple: get enough smart and motivated people together in a cohort and give them the opportunity (time, access to funds, etc.) to start businesses together and some of them will succeed…. bigly.
The venture capital community here in Berlin are not so convinced. Personally I sympathise with their doubts. Certainly from an operations point of view, scaling EF has seen problems. However, as a business model it may be genius.
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