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We had a great time at the Collision Conference in Toronto this month where ISF Incubator’s Conrad Burke discussed building and funding your first idea. Some tips from the serial entrepreneur who now leads startup creation at IV: 1. Find a good founding partner and team 2. Tell a compelling story 3. Test your business plan every single day and pivot often to keep up with changing markets 4. Ask questions and solicit feedback from customers, employees, partners, and friends 5. Set milestones and deliverables and recalibrate as necessary 6. Have the tenacity, grit and determination to grow your startup Thanks Collision for hosting a great event! Learn more at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM9rg and check out our incubator program at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM9rU
Meet Brian Holloway, who joined Intellectual Ventures (IV) in August 2017 as head of the Deep Science Fund. “I get to touch on an amazingly diverse set of topics and areas of science, literally on a daily basis,” he says. “There has never been a day here where I have spent the entire day dwelling on one single scientific topic, and I love that.” Read more about Brian and his work at IV—including a promising project involving a dynamic skin technology—in our latest employee spotlight! http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM90n
Despite modern advances in medicine and technology, malaria continues infect 200 million and kill ~500,000 each year. Since our foundation, IV has been focused on addressing the disease with advanced diagnostics, mosquito control and vaccine storage systems for remote areas. Learn more about IV’s impact invention pipeline: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMPnH http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMPnu
IV founder and CEO Nathan Myhrvold sat down with Bloomberg recently to discuss all things metamaterials. Watch below to learn more about what metamaterials will mean for autonomous vehicles, 5G and satellite communications. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMvoU
In its April 2019 issue, Scientific American explores the groundbreaking algorithm Global Good developed with researchers at the National Institutes of Health: “One of the most common and cost-effective ways to detect cervical cancer is the pap smear, in which cells are scraped from a woman's cervix and sent to a laboratory for analysis. But this method requires equipment and medical expertise that are not always available in some low-income countries. Now scientists are making an app they hope could use artificial intelligence to identify precancerous or cancerous cells with just a photograph. Their preliminary results, published online in January in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggest that such an approach could significantly improve cervical cancer diagnosis in low-resource settings.” http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMv8O
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IV spinout Kymeta is helping usher in a new generation of autonomous vehicles: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQZim
Detecting and monitoring infectious diseases can be expensive and unreliable in many of the areas that need it the most. That’s why Global Good is working with JP Selecta to launch a new microbiological culture incubator that gives labs in low-resource settings an upper hand against TB, sepsis, enteric and diarrheal diseases, and sexually-transmitted bacterial infections. Read more at: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQoyh
In a great article, Nature quotes Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates and other high-profile Microsoft alumni in a survey of how Washington—once the epicenter of the information-technology world—has now become a major player in global health. “The Seattle area is the Silicon Valley of saving the world,” Nathan says. “We have arguably the world's most effective concentration of talent, dedication and financial resources devoted to eradicating infectious diseases—plus tremendous efforts around improving agricultural productivity and advancing clean energy and sustainable building technologies. It's easier to be optimistic about the future when you're surrounded by so many smart people working so hard to make it better.” http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQovx
IV is proud to support organizations that take on big challenges. The Pacific Science Center, Techbridge Girls, and Rebuilding Together Seattle each share a commitment to community, inclusion, and helping individuals thrive. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQbqH http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQbqu http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQbqD
