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The Financialization of Disruptive Technology

The Agile Manager

It's fashionable to champion an investment-oriented model for software development, particularly around exploratory opportunities. A recent FT Lex article on biotech investing drives the point home: "A 20-year study found only one-fifth of exits were profitable. Cheap capital makes it easy for anybody to enter the innovation game.

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What I Read in 2017

Tim Kadlec

Lies was an Ocean’s Eleven-esque story with a blistering pace that (in my opinion) cared less about developing the characters than it did about having fun. The setting is imaginative and full of unique biotech. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch 4 ⁄ 5 This is a very different book than the first in the series.

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