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Funding Gap? Ha!
Carl Weissman Ever since I came back to Seattle in 2003 to help get Accelerator up and running, I have been barraged with rhetoric about something euphemistically referred to as the “Funding Gap.”...
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Death of Good Times? Hardly
Carl Weissman I guess when you are Sequoia, you can hold a big public media-attended meeting where you display a faux tombstone ominously announcing the death of the Good Times. My approach has to be...
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Biotech in a Garage: It Can Work
Carl Weissman (Editor’s Note: Carl Weissman submitted this in response to a feature story about entrepreneur Johnny Stine, who clearly relishes building a biotech startup without venture capital.)...
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Diamonds Are Forever. Why Not a Drug Patent?
Carl Weissman Tell me if this makes sense to you: —If I buy a diamond, I can own it for as long as I like; —If I produce a brand name for a product, provided that I trademark it, I can own it for as...
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Recruit Rock Star Scientists To Make Seattle Thrive as an Innovation Hub
Carl Weissman I am quite often asked, in some form or another, “What can [STATE][LOCAL] government do to spur on an innovation-based economy in [SEATTLE][WASHINGTON]?” Well, as I said on a panel at...
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Seattle Is #3—Where Does Michigan Want To Be?
Carl Weissman Seattle has, from my point of view, carved out its position as the No. 3 biotech market in the U.S. behind Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Michigan is currently an outsider...
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Seattle Doesn’t Need a Biotech Anchor Tenant. It Needs to Be a Place Where...
Carl Weissman Over the past week or so, I have been asked by a number of people, both privately and in the media, what I think about the acquisition of Seattle-based ZymoGenetics (NASDAQ: ZGEN) by...
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Remove the Cap on Social Security
Carl Weissman I am apolitical by nature. The entire process of electing representatives, from city councils to Presidents, leaves me cold. Blame my extraordinary microeconomics professor H. Scott...
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