Indie.bio - Any interest in a "curated call" list?

[Cathal Garvey]

Hey all,
So, in discussing Indie.bio recently, an idea occurred to me, which is
that many of us have the technical skill or access to cofounders to
accomplish great stuff, but may be going through a dry period for ideas
or products.

So, while applications are still expected to describe their own project
and product from scratch and all ideas are welcome, we could publish a
list of "suggested ideas"; stuff that we think would be really cool, and
for which we'd be interested to see well-considered applications.

Would this be useful to anyone? Is anyone out there interested in taking
part, and thinks they could do a great job at indie.bio, but lacks an
actual project to work on?

Best,
Cathal
PS: Note new domain name, indie.bio ! Yay for new TLDs!

[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

I could still use a guy with marketing/management skills. I have two guys with super biotech and chemistry knowledge, and we surely are going to learn how to do management in practice or marketing... Though it would be great to have someone who already studied this in depth. 

[Mark Szepieniec]

I for one would definitely be interested in such a list.

Mark

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] <masters...@gmail.com> wrote:

I could still use a guy with marketing/management skills. I have two guys with super biotech and chemistry knowledge, and we surely are going to learn how to do management in practice or marketing... Though it would be great to have someone who already studied this in depth. 

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[Kermit Henson]

Sorry if I misunderstood, but... Is it about how the sell ideas or to give inew biotech deas?

El viernes, 28 de noviembre de 2014, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] <masters...@gmail.com> escribió:

I could still use a guy with marketing/management skills. I have two guys with super biotech and chemistry knowledge, and we surely are going to learn how to do management in practice or marketing... Though it would be great to have someone who already studied this in depth. 

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[Karl Taylor]

You know, I've taken to giving out free consults in the mobile app and education spaces as a marketer. I'd be happy to get you some time heading in the right direction.

[Brian Degger]

From what I understand....

Some of us have ideas but havent worked out how to do it or have too many ideas.

Some of us have many skills that are looking for a good idea.

Matching these is what is interesting

Cheers
Brian

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[Dakota Hamill]

I'd be more in line with what Brian was saying, as I'd be more interested in a place where you can list your skills or current projects, and either recruit talent to the project, or advertise yourself and skills for someone else to look at.  A craigslist of science.  

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[Cathal (Phone)]

Sounds duplicative. Easy to post to this or other lists, or reddits, or just search on linkedin. If we made a ning or craigslist, we'd also have to spend time bringing candidate traffic there, for little gain over what's already out there.

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[Nathan McCorkle]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Dakota Hamill <dko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be more in line with what Brian was saying, as I'd be more interested in
> a place where you can list your skills or current projects, and either
> recruit talent to the project, or advertise yourself and skills for someone
> else to look at. A craigslist of science.

Exactly, I have a few ideas/projects that I would love to farm out to
the right/interested team. A platform for this would probably allow an
idea-poster to choose what license/business-model (trade-secret,
patents, open-source). For these such projects, I've done lots and
lots of research but am too busy with other things currently, so I
would really just want to be an adviser. Open-source projects would
obviously be easier to get going and develop trust, I think... but I
do think non-open projects could gain from this sort of system.

Basically it would like posting your idea to indie.bio's list of
'project ideas' (with their approval) and then choosing a team from
the people who showed up saying it was interesting to them.

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Cathal (Phone)
<cathal...@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
> Sounds duplicative. Easy to post to this or other lists, or reddits, or just
> search on linkedin. If we made a ning or craigslist, we'd also have to spend
> time bringing candidate traffic there, for little gain over what's already
> out there.

It really should just be another part of some incubator/accelerator's
vetting process, not something totally new. There are tons of
motivated people out there without a project of their own, just
waiting to hear about some interesting project that they could make
enough $$ to eat without worry for a few months. I would probably say
in my opinion most of the bachelors-level biotech graduates are
willing to be put to work, but don't have (and haven't ever
considered) a project of their own. These smart people need a way to
be skimmed.

[Chowe]

As a graduating bachelors-bioengineer, I agree with Nathan that I, for one, am ready to be put to work and my main focus right now is finding the right project/idea to pursue. I would love to participate in the Indiebio program, because it seems like it would be a great experience for a recent graduate, however I do not have many of my own ideas that are business worthy and I also lack the networking to join existing teams. 

I would definitely utilize a list of "suggested ideas" and would eventually love to see a place dedicated to matching independent biotech projects/ideas with people, so you do not have to look very far or for very long to find your team or project. I realize this is possible through the DIYbio group and many other places, and has been successful many times, however a place specifically meant to match projects to people would make this process a lot more efficient, saving lots of time and effort, especially for a recent graduate. 

[Cathal (Phone)]

Hm, I can see the value in Nathan's suggestion of a system that mediates idea licensing, ownership, terms of collaboration, etc.. very clever. That'd be pretty cool, and obviously tying it in to sources of funding or acceleration would be great. :)

Definitely food for thought!

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

On Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:08:54 PM UTC-8, Nathan McCorkle wrote:

Exactly, I have a few ideas/projects that I would love to farm out to
the right/interested team. A platform for this would probably allow an
idea-poster to choose what license/business-model (trade-secret,
patents, open-source). For these such projects, I've done lots and
lots of research but am too busy with other things currently, so I
would really just want to be an adviser. Open-source projects would
obviously be easier to get going and develop trust, I think... but I
do think non-open projects could gain from this sort of system.

Basically it would like posting your idea to indie.bio's list of
'project ideas'  (with their approval) and then choosing a team from
the people who showed up saying it was interesting to them.

I might be interested in something like this as well. I have way more ideas than I can pursue by myself anyway. But it would be nice to at least get credit for the idea. 

I don't care much for patents, and equity doesn't truly excite me. My "coin of the realm" is to be recognized and acknowledged for the ideas that I bring to the table. Of course, anyone writing a patent would totally be shooting themselves in the foot by acknowledging that the idea came from someone else. But that just goes to show how messed up the patent system is...

Patrik

[Biotech Ryan]

I really like this idea and we've already seen interest in this from many of the applicants to indie bio, teams that need specific skill sets as the start accelerating. So how best could we set it up to give idea generators credit as Patrik mentioned? Like a hackernews for bio ideas?

[Emer Natalio]

Hello Nathan and Everyone, 

Your wish is my command!

Funny how parallel universes work?

 

Been developing / building such an online system

(stealth mode) for a couple of months now. 

It will include provisions for: Protocol sharing, Assays, etc...

as well as a method to sell/buy? bio citizen's research or experiments' 

end products. 

Would anyone like to be a beta tester?

I'm projecting to start beta testing ~ late

(1st Qtr of 2015). 

Please send me your most used email address 

if you're interested in helping to shape it. 

enatalio [at] gmail.     you know the rest. 

Subject: Molecular Mantra

Look forward to reading your email of interest. 

Best, 

Emer 

On Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:08:54 PM UTC-8, Nathan McCorkle wrote: