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Re:How to spin your scientific research out of a university ... by curiousllama on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:15AM (#24929655)
Every engineer printed hello world for the first time at some point, but that point isn’t the time you should put them in charge of a mission-critical codebase.

It’s not that they’ll never be good leaders, it’s that it’ll take a while to get there, and that timeframe might be measured in failed startups.

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Re:How to spin your scientific research out of a university ... by hobofan on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:24AM (#24929717)
As someone who was more or less a "Hello World engineer" (at least not far from it) when founding my first startup, I couldn't agree more.

The article expands a bit on why it's not a good idea to hire a CEO, and I mostly agree with that part, though not so much with having no business person on the founding team.

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Re:How to spin your scientific research out of a university ... by DrAwdeOccarim on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:39PM (#24933004)
Also, I think most commenters are not weighing how much different running a biotech startup is compared to a software startup.
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