Learning With Lowell

Paths in Science, Preserve the environment, Homeward bound a South Pole Odyssey, and What her goals are for the future just to name a few examples.

More about her

Heidi Steltzer, Ph.D. Heidi is an environmental scientist, an explorer, and a science communicator, sharing her passion for science with others. She is an Associate Professor at Fort Lewis College, Colorado. She studies how environmental changes affect mountain watersheds and Arctic systems and their link to our well-being. Heidi's research has been published in Nature and featured in the media, including the New York Times. Find her on social media and Medium.com @heidimountains.

Here is her website as well and the Reddit AMA she was apart of.

Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes( "*" next to ones I recommend):

[ 02:15] When was the last time she was surprised, Soil Water content in Colorado, Winter Drought, and how her student's proved one of her assumptions incorrect.

[ 07:15 ] The two different ways to determine soil water amount.

[ 08:35 ] What's the fun science name for the better way to determine soil water content.

[ 09:45 ] *What is her purpose, how finding your purpose helps you make choices, and how she loves traveling.

[ 13:15 ] *Her thoughts on how being alone in nature can help her reflect and become more self aware to become more courageous and doing what she loves.

[ 15:35 ] What she did after getting her PhD at 21/22 years old.

[ 17:10 ] *She asks what I care about and tells me a story about science to get us more excited about the sciences. A story involving Lichen, Tundra fires, The Lichens of Alaska.

[ 22:00 ] What we can do to impacting climate change.

[ 26:48 ] Making a lichen garden and how great /s Heidi is at growing things.

[ 28:00 ] How things that taste good, in her opinion, tend to end up being good for us with an example of her and her allergies.

[ 29:30 ] Reddit AMA, Homeward bound, and large marine sanctuaries

[ 32:20 ] The world as a small snow globe, which we can influence.

[ 34:00 ] *What she is currently working on, excited about, and the biggest experiment she has run yet.

[ 36:50 ] The American Geophysical Union and her new role with them as a Voice for Science.

[ 38:22 ] What she was doing when I was born.

[ 38:50 ] *How you can get involved in research and conservation with/without a PhD, and how she is working on creating animations of the research as it is being conducted.

[ 42:15 ] *How time lapse cameras pointed at plants can show how our plants dance very slowly throughout are day.

[ 43:55 ] How she loves to take notes, how she got into science, and how she broke out of the box she built for herself.

[ 47:17 ] *Where does she go to get the hopeful news about the world over the doom and gloom of the traditional news cycle.

[ 49:38 ] *Key scientists she recommends we check out.

[ 50:00 ] Her full name and how it sort of hinted at her being a mountain expert her entire life.

[ 51:23 ] Recommended books and how she doesn't require textbooks in her classes.

[ 53:55 ] *Female Einstein type people and books.

[ 55:14 ]  How scientists care and they're people too.

Aquarium of the Pacific Education Coordinator at , and he takes people out on trips to see the whales as they swim around in the Pacific. They get to see a lot of different marine life while on these trips. In this talk, we get into where he is from, how he found his love for whales, things you can do to help marine life, and a great sense of who he is as a person. This is a great talk, and by the end, everyone can stop saying "Oh-whale" whenever there is a problem, and start being involved with the solutions!

Editorial note: The name of the scientist doing work from SDSU on whale acoustics (about 8min 45sec mark and 9:15min mark), is Dr. Ted Cranford. James accidentally spoke the wrong name.

Hyperlinked Show Notes (Top 10 have "*" Next to the Timestamps):

[ 2:30 ] *Thoughts on whales and the Pacific White Sided Dolphin.

[ 5:30 ] Thoughts on naming marine life after himself.

[ 6:30 ] *Blue whale quick fact and whale hot spots, such as Point Conceptions and Monterey Bay.

[ 9:00 ] *Fun whale facts, such as the age of a whale.

[ 15:00 ] How smart whales are.

[ 19:00 ] How long whales and dolphins live to be.

[ 21:50 ] How he knew marine life was the life for him.

[ 24:30 ] People who are excited or not excited about whales when he does a Whale Watch tour.

[ 27:30 ] Where he would go if he moved on from whale tours.

[ 30:00 ] *How whale populations are trending.

[ 32:55 ] *How whale behaviors have changed.

[ 34:00 ] Whale gestation period.

[ 35:30 ] Transition into conservation practices.

[ 40:45 ] *Rules of thumb on things to do, such as seafood.

[ 44:30 ] *What happens when whales die (Whale Fall).

[ 47:00 ] *Great conservation stories.

[ 48:50 ] *LA green port initiatives.

[ 51:45 ] Where to go to learn more about how to be a conservationist.  

[ 56:00 ] What he wishes people would be more active in.

[ 1:00:00 ] *How not to say "OH-Whale" and do something instead.

[ 1:04:00 ] Where you can learn more, his blog and AOP website.

Saliva to detect disease,  A Startup, Daeki, and Founder, Amanda work to create innovated technology to make self monitoring and detecting as easy as figuring out if your pregnant.  In this episode, we get into how she moved from Chile to the UK to start this company while getting her undergraduate degree, the things she has learned, why she has built the company, and how big of a nerd she is about anime (the name of the company is a big giveaway). Also, she was a part of RebelBio Cohort V, which is what brought her to the UK.

Diabetes Saliva Disease Self Monitoring and Screening by Biotech Startup, Daeki, and Talk about Startup life and Development with Founder and CEO Amanda

 

Amanda, CEO - From Freshman Courses in Chili, to Moving to the UK, to Joining RebelBio, and Founding Daeki

Here is her website:

www.daekitech.com

 

Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes

[ 2:10 ] *What her background is, and how she got started much earlier than most people. Still in undergrad!

[ 2:45 ] How she at first did not want to be an entrepreneur, where the idea behind the startup came from, and how she slowly navigated her way into creating this great startup.

[ 6:10 ] *How they ended up in London, how the first product they made involved saliva, and how she got into Rebelbio. She has traveled quite a lot.

[ 9:15 ] How Europe compares to other places, and how she loves traveling throughout Europe.

[ 10:22 ] *How she learned to pitch, and what she has been doing to gain XP to level up her skills.

[ 11:25 ] *Strategies to help people who are going to pitch to others, and how a friend of hers kept acting like Barney from HIMYM.

[ 12:30 ] *The balance between people who are open to talking vs not talking with her.

[ 13:10 ] Thoughts on mentors.

[ 14:00 ] Suggestions that advisers have given her, such as confidence.

[ 15:05 ] *How does the science work with her product and some learning hurtles she has gone through to find something that works.

[ 17:30 ] *Something she used to never think about, but now thinks about a lot so she can troubleshoot problems before they come up. Quick example of how they lost materials one time, and how they adapted to ensure that doesn't ever happen again.

[ 20:45 ] *What she is going to do after successfully pitching to investors, and her plans to get things churning out by late 2018.

[ 21:20 ] How to spell her startup and why she picked a Japanese name for the company.

[ 22:10 ] Her "guilty pleasures" and what she does on Friday nights, which sounds like fun to me!

[ 23:00 ] Our mutual love of One piece the Manga and we talk about it a little bit.

[ 26:40 ] Other anime that she loves and her anime recommendations.

[ 29:00 ] *How effective her saliva technology is at monitoring A1C levels, and over the next 3 months she will have much better data.

[ 30:15 ] *Advice for people who want to start a biotech company.

[ 31:30 ] How she finds grants, and her history with getting funding through grants, and her thoughts on the process.

[ 32:30 ] Her recommendations on setting yourself up for success, like finding people who know things you don't so you both can grow.

[ 34:20 ] *Best ways to keep up to date with her and her company.

[ 35:15 ] The literal meaning of Daeki.

[ 36:25 ] *Don't let age stop you. She started at 19!

Polar Bears Unmasked with facts and stories from the cold north. These two lovers of polar bears have dedicated their lives to understanding them and we are lucky enough to sit down with them to learn what they have learned, hear what they've seen, and downloads some of their wisdom.

Brief Background About Each of the Guests:

BJ Kirschhoffer Director of Field Operations

"BJ began working with PBI's remote broadcasting needs in Churchill in the fall of 2007 and quickly proved himself an invaluable member of the team, able to trouble-shoot technical problems in extreme conditions with no corner hardware store. He now ensures the smooth working of our field operations, from our Maternal Den Studies in Svalbard and Alaska to our Tundra Connections Webcasts, which link scientists in the field with people around the world. BJ also works to test and refine new technology that aids in polar bear research and contributes to cutting-edge fieldwork. He also oversees our Polar Bear Cam with explore.org, as well as the Beluga and Northern Lights Cams. BJ has a degree in wildlife photography from Montana State University. " As seen on Polar Bear International. 

Alysa McCall Director of Conservation Outreach and Staff Scientist 

"Alysa is the director of conservation outreach and a staff scientist at Polar Bears International. She has a B.Sc. (Hon.) in Animal Biology from Thompson Rivers University and an M.Sc. in Ecology from the University of Alberta where her thesis focused on the polar bears of western Hudson Bay. She gained hands-on experience with polar bears from multiple fall and spring field seasons in Tuktoyaktuk and Churchill, and has been heavily involved in the collaring and tracking of Hudson Bay polar bears. Before joining our staff, Alysa volunteered in multiple capacities, including being a panelist on the Tundra Connections program, blogging, and assisting with the Polar Bear Tracker. She is passionate about science education and polar bear conservation, and is dedicated to ensuring that future generations inherit a healthy planet." As seen on Polar Bear International.

Brief synopsis of the episode:

BJ and Alysa talk about what they do, how they worked themselves into their positions (career progression), ways we all can be helpful to polar bears and climate change in general, amazing polar bear facts, fat popsicles (this is a funny one), and what interests them the most about what they do.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

Website: Polar Bear International. 

How to get involved at Polar Bear International. 

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook , Google Plus, and where to check out the live streams (Explore.org).

Timestamped Show Notes (I have to say, BJ has a really great voice. Also, my top 10 favorite sections have ** next to the timestamps):

[ 03:15 ] **What originally got them interested in polar bear science and proactive conservation?

[ 06:00 ] Thoughts on danger and how they prepare for the north.

[ 08:15 ] **Their thoughts on the movie The Thing, and places that remind them of the facilities in that movie.

[ 9:45 ] The results of their search projects and some of the projects they are working on.

[ 12:25 ]** BJ's Den monitoring project.

[ 13:30 ] Montreal protocol, things we can support, and what we all can do to help.

[ 18:50 ]  Polar Bear International information on advocacy.

[ 19:45 ] What they do in their free time and their favorite board games.

[ 23:45 ] **Positive news in the north, such as creative youth innovation and how they live stream.

[ 27:25 ] Good news Friday, good branding for polar bears, and whether penguins and polar bears get along...

[ 29:00 ] **Fat Popsicle from a baby seal... You really need to listen to this section to get it. It’s really funny and educational. 

[ 30:25 ] Fun quick facts about polar bears as marine animals, such as how they can live off of straight fat unlike us.

Company, what they did to get started, the success and hurtles they have had, what they hope to accomplish, some of the science behind everything, and last of all, the things they are nerds about. Overall they are decent scientists.

Who they are and what they are working to fix:

"Erica Barnell (MD/PhD Candidate, Washington University School of Medicine) and Andrew Barnell (MBA, The Wharton School) are siblings that co-founded Geneoscopy, a startup focused on developing diagnostic tools to prevent, detect, and treat digestive diseases.

Geneoscopy was founded on the belief that a noninvasive diagnostic test using human RNA biomarkers in stool samples would provide a screening alternative that could improve colorectal cancer screening compliance, facilitate early-stage detection of colorectal cancer neoplasms, and reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the 2nd deadliest cancer in the United States and the 4th deadliest cancer worldwide. However, no methodology existed to reliably isolate and preserve human RNA from stool.

Over the past two and a half years, Geneoscopy has developed a nucleic acid extraction method that amplifies the human signals and degrades bacterial noise in stool. This allows for sensitive extraction of human RNA that can be used as biomarkers to noninvasively evaluate gastrointestinal health. Geneoscopy has filed three provisional patents and one utility patent to protect this technology and has leveraged it to develop a multi-target RNA biomarker panel for the detection of precancerous lesions and colorectal cancer. Geneoscopy has executed two clinical trials and tested over 340 patients, and the results of these studies have demonstrated our test’s differentiated accuracy profile, particularly for the identification of advanced adenomas (95% sensitivity). Geneoscopy is currently enrolling patients in a 1,000-patient trial to complete the development of this colorectal cancer diagnostic test, and has formed partnerships with two academic medical centers to leverage its extraction platform to develop diagnostic tests for other digestive diseases." Taken from their post on Medium.

Brief synopsis of the episode:

In this episode, we get into how they came up with their company, what they did to get started, the success and hurtles they have had, what they hope to accomplish, some of the science behind everything, and last of all, the things they are nerds about.

Hyperlinked Show Notes Timestamps:

My top 10 Favorite sections have "**" next to the time stamps.

[ 02:00 ] ** Erica’s background as an MD/Phd doing rotations, and how she first got passionate about colon cancer.

[ 3:45 ] A talk over dinner: how the interest became a startup business.

[ 4:30 ] What caught Andrew's eye about the healthcare space and the benefit of Geneoscopy.

[ 5:30 ] What made this idea come to the forefront over the dozens of other business ideas they thought of.

[ 7:30 ] With Andrew with an MBA and Erica with a MD/PhD - what is with their family and being overachievers? 

[ 8:30 ] Does it take an advanced background to identify a problem?

[ 9:30 ] **Following up with the last timestamp, what makes the best entrepreneurs?

[ 11:15 ] What are things that surprise them about each other that makes them proud?

[ 12:55 ] **Andrew compliments Erica. :)

[ 13:55 ] How things used to be and how big of an impact their technology and IP will have.

[ 16:25 ] **Learn about colon cancer and what in particular is unique about what they have built.

[ 18:10 ] **What has the response been like from physicians, and how far away are they from having it in physician's hands?

[ 20:10 ] What does the day to day look look for Erica?

[ 23:20 ] **Preliminary IP came from Washington University and how they got the IP for their company.

[ 25:45 ] The relationship Academia and business have had.

[ 27:00 ] Grey hair fallacies, where is the biotech industry trending, hurtles,

Today we are joined with Dominic Falcao, a founder of Deep Science Ventures which is an early stage venture builder where they bring together the business and science aspects to help form amazing teams with the ability to impact all of our lives. It is a relatively new venture. It's fun in that it's under two years old, but there is a lot of knowledge and wisdom that Dom shares about venture capitalism, about life, how to de-risk situations, how to preempt issues, and how to hustle to get what you want. Also, how to set up tranches to benefit you if you ever seek money from a VC, book recommendations, and much, much more. I think everyone is going to get something from this episode. Additionally, if you have an interest in starting a biotech company, then definitely reach out to Dom and his team at Deep Science Ventures. There are very few places of the world that they cannot sponsor a visa from in order to have you head to the UK or work to set things up remotely.

Here are the timestamps that I promised! I've marked a few of them with ** to bring special attention to those sections.

[ 3:00 ] ** Dom’s story of how and why he founded Deep Science Ventures with Mark Hammond.

[ 4:00 ] Who Dom wants to help/encourage with DSV.

[ 7:00 ] What some venture capitals do with excess capital, and how Dom/Mark have their fund set up.

[ 9:00 ] **What the first year and a half has been like at DSV (developments, difference models, thoughts, and hurdles).

[ 10:30 ] How they burnt their ships, forced themselves to work harder, and secured the necessary funding to start DSV.

[ 12:15] Comparing what they did to Agamemnon conquering Troy by burning his soldiers ships to force them to fight harder.

[ 14:00 ] Fun fact: Trojans eventually becoming Romans and recommended Roman books.

[ 15:08 ] Mark Hammond’s role in the fund and the key things he brings to the table.

[ 17:45 ] What Dom is currently pushing himself to be great at.

[ 18:55 ] **How Dom creates decks for his fund when he pitches, what he spends 50% of his deck on when he presents, thoughts on biotech as an investment class, why biotech is perceived as risky and how it’s changing, and more.

[ 26:45 ]The books that have had a huge impact on the way Dom thinks.

[ 29:00 ] **Tranches Explained! Everything you ever wanted to know about how to think about Tranches and how to use tranches strategically to take the wind out of arguments.

[ 35:55 ] How do/did he find candidates and how he decides on key characteristics for success.

[ 41:55 ] An example of key characteristics he looks for. 

[ 45:30 ] Find inflection people that others are not seeing and an absurd story about Oppenheimer.

[ 48:20 ] **Great people who are overlooked and why this is one of Dom’s focus points for what he works on.

[ 56:00 ] Advice on learning more, positioning yourself to make a difference, and de-risking your dream/goal.

[ 59:30 ] Lean startup as a repackaged scientific method.

[ 1:01:00 ] **Recommended books fallacies & Biases, and a few gems Dom has found that he enjoys. (We may write a good book together. Message and tweet Dom/myself, if that interests you. @lowellwashere and @DominicFalcao)

[ 1:05:00 ] Where you can go to learn more and how to get into their program, such as website (relaunch with more content soon),  @DominicFalcao,

 

Here is their website: Website link.

Adora was very generous in making time in her busy life to talk with me, and I want to make sure all of you tune in to hear our discussion. She is a very interesting person with a story that shows that it’s not always easy to find your way, but if you persist and you work really hard, you can get a chance at making it. During the recording, we went over the time limit two times because of how much fun we were having. I want that to be something that everyone takes from these episodes. Namely, that 99% of the people you meet are similar to you in one way or another who are waiting to laugh and have impassioned discussions. I love to hear people laugh and talk about what they are interested in. In this talk, we get all of that, plus we get into the Ybio program, how people interact with her, the things she has learned traveling the world, the dark ages of her former company Homejoy, and a little bit of everything.

Stay tuned for my the Top 10 Things I learned from this episode. I will be putting out top 5-10 things from each of my episodes from now on, and going back to do the same to the past episodes as well!

Y Combinator website

The Top 21 Topics and Where to Find Them!

Go to show notes or to the website to click the timestamps to go to their position in the podcast.

[ 4:30 ] How to write a great email that gets a person's attention.

[ 6:30 ] The key things she thinks about in regards to success.

[ 7:00 ] About her day, how Y Combinator works, and working with the companies.

[ 8:25 ] What startups are actually like on the inside vs how they are perceived on the outside.

[ 9:30 ] Learning about her outreach and recruiting tours.

[ 11:00 ] Changes in Startup funding: From having to know investors to just applying to YC.

[ 12:30 ] 30% of applicants from the last batch is international and the thoughts on that.

[ 15:30 ] How she is currently researching molecular biology (suggestions welcome).

[ 16:30 ] What YC and Ybio are looking for and thinking about. 

[ 19:00 ] Brick and Mortar, and why it one of the big things that is interesting her.

[ 24:30 ] New technology with Alexa-type technology to detect when people are in trouble, trying to find their keys, exercise, and more. 

[ 27:00 ] Microbiology type books and love of textbooks. 

[ 32:00 ] Blockchain explained and its benefits, such as to countries with poor buying power with their local currency.

[ 37:45 ] What you should do if you don’t have an idea for a company, but want to be involved with startups.

[ 39:00 ] How Yc internal is setup vs other firms.

[ 43:00 ] The things she pays attention to in order to determine if it a company and team will be successful.

[ 47:30 ] Don't work with jackasses or be very selective.

[ 48:30] A Mark Twain quote she loves.

[ 49:00] The new Y bio program and the differences between their normal procedure of investment.

[ 53:30 ] Biotech RIO.

[ 57:55 ] If she's found a mini-me yet and how she thinks about mentorship.

Meesha and Robert talk about their companies, what it takes to be a good CEO, what they are working on, and the advances in research technology. There is a lot here to love and to enjoy, and this is one of the few in-person interviews that I've done. The audio quality is a little difficult because of that, but there is a lot of great content in here to make up for it! :)

Their website.

 

Hyperlinked time stamp show notes (Only on website);

[ 01:30 ] Robert: How they got where they were (i.e. education and motivation).

[ 02:50 ] Epigenetics explained simply.

[ 05:00 ] Meesha: How she got where she is now, where her interest, and passion originated from.

[ 08:10 ] Robert answers how starting a biotech startup has changed over the years.

[ 09:10 ] Meesha answers what the ecosystem is like now.

[ 11:30 ] What is Meesha doing to be a great CEO and how Robert has been a lot of help.

[ 13:35 ] What are the big challenges Meesha has been working on in developing a medical diagnostic test.

[ 15:55 ] How to find great partnerships and what characteristics to look for to ensure your startup has the best possible footing.

[ 17:20 ] Examples of large partnerships that they have developed and/or are developing.

[ 20:20 ] How they would build a CEO out of traits/experiences they would build it from.

[ 27:20 ] How for in advance are they planning.

[ 32:50 ] How big of a difference is their tech going to make compared to other things on the market.

[ 34:00 ] How grants have helped them and their thoughts about how to use them affectively.

[ 35:20 ] What advice would they give to people just starting out.

[ 40:00 ] How have things changed over the past year of their company.

[ 42:50 ] How are they inspired by and how they use it to push themselves.

The description below is taken directly from their website. Why reinvent the wheel, right? :)

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Dr. Meesha Dogan is a data scientist for Behavioral Diagnostics. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. Her expertise bridges medicine and engineering by applying computational techniques on high-throughput biomedical data. Dr. Dogan has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and has applied her data science skills in both academia and industry.

Dr. Dogan is the co-founder and CEO of Cardio Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Behavioral Diagnostics, where she co-invented diagnostic technologies for cardiovascular disease.  Cardio Diagnostics is a pioneer in integrated genetic and epigenetic based tests for precision medicine diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment of cardiovascular  disorders. When coupled with artificial intelligence via corporate partners, Cardio Diagnostics will allow primary care practitioners to offer state-of-the-art clinical care by determining each individual’s unique environmental and genetic risk for the top 10 leading causes of death, including coronary heart disease.

Dr. Dogan is also an adjunct assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Iowa, where she continues her research efforts to transform medicine towards the precision medicine paradigm.

 

Dr. Rob Philibert is the Chief Executive Officer and the principal founder of Behavioral Diagnostics. Dr. Philibert completed his M.D. and PhD through the University of Iowa Medical Scientist Training Program in 1989.  After finishing his residency in Psychiatry in 1993, he then completed a Pharmacology Research Associate Training Program fellowship and spent nearly 6 focused years of bench top research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Subsequently, he returned to the University of Iowa where he is now a Professor of Psychiatry with adjunct appointments in Genetics, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

Dr.

He has a genomics PhD, developed bioinformatics tools, genetic tests, and has built science-related companies since 2012. Since starting, he has become a director at a genomics company and founded his own company, DNA Geeks. In this episode, we cover personalized healthcare based on genomics, inbreeding, y chromosome breaking off, is the y chromosome only being affected in humans (we couldn't figure it out), his website and career trajectory, and other fascinating genomic topics!

See hyperlinked show notes at the bottom!

Leo is the founder of Neural Analytics, a company that is building technology that lets physicians and techs get past the skull and to the brain without any surgery.  This allows them to see traumatic brain damage, stroke, or any number of things without being too invasive. This is a life saver, and I cannot wait to see Leo develop his company in the coming years. In this episode, we go into the technology, into Leo's story and his company's story, and get extremely detailed into the process of starting a biotech company. Anyone even remotely interested in biotech companies should check this episode out since we do a great job at demystifying the process and having fun while doing it.

Here is his company website if you are excited to learn more: website.

Here are some other articles covering Leo and his technology:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/dod-awards-neural-analytics-10m-to-develop-brain-injury-device

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180108005449/en/Neural-Analytics-Raises-15-Million-Series-Financing

https://www.massdevice.com/neural-analytics-launches-study-of-transcranial-doppler-for-evaluating-mild-tbi/

https://www.massdevice.com/neural-analytics-touts-95-accuracy-tcd-platform-expedite-trial/

 Timestamped Hyperlinks ("**" Next to My Top 10):

[ 01:00 ] **How his technology can permeate our skulls to get accurate images when bones normally cause ultrasounds to bounce off.

[ 03:00 ] The different areas of the skull you can get through with ultrasound.

[ 04:00 ] How the ultrasound works by analogy.

[ 05:00 ] How their device works in the field, how much training, and the huge impact it is going to make.

[ 08:45 ] **Military contract, and how this tool is similar to a CT scanner in ability to diagnose a brain injury or TBI.

[ 10:45 ] How his technology helps out stroke victims and what we can expect to change.

[ 12:20 ] "Doing good by doing well" mantra explained.

[ 14:00 ] **Three things he looks for in a successful entrepreneur and why he values PhD scientists/engineers in an early stage startup.

[ 17:50 ] How he picks his staff, things he thinks about, questions he asks.

[ 20:30 ] **How he built the work culture at his startup and his book recommendations on how to build a great work culture.

[ 22:30 ] Stanford Marshmallow Experiment with children, and how being able to put off gratification tends to lead to success.

[ 23:55 ] **What he got his PhD as a National Science Fellow in, designing a detector for anthrax, and how defense work can be difficult as you tend to not know if what you made works due it being top secret.

[ 27:50 ] How close they are to having deliverable project, and how the funding process goes.

[ 28:30 ] **The start of the “How to build a biotech” part with how to get funding or find funding to apply for, with google searches.

[ 32:25 ] ** How to think about grant funding, pair the grants with investor funds, and how to strategically use what you get to produce results.

[ 37:50 ] Asking who the right investor is, hiring your own boss, and 3 pieces of advice on raising money.

[ 39:00 ] Defining the objective first, then working to achieve that objective over doing random things.

[ 40:00 ] KPI explained.

[ 41:30 ] **Interpolation. How to look at what you want, and how to work towards that goal.

[ 42:30 ] **How does the patent and IP transfer process work from universities, and where to go to find open patents for purchase (i.e. bridgenetwork, AZTE, Columbia tech transfer ). We literally opened up browsers at this point and walked through the process. Follow along! :)

[ 48:00 ] Follow this section to get an idea on how to find patents/IP and funding that would match what you get. This is extremely fascinating and makes the process much simpler than you would guess.  One window SBIR, and the other IBridgeNetwork.

[ 48:30 ] **Do you need a PhD,