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Bruce Booth is a Partner at Atlas Venture focused on helping start and fund emerging biotech therapeutics companies. He's married to a wonderful woman and has three great kids. Active skier, runner, fly fisherman.
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- Panel at #cvforum13 says Biotech VC funding at 95 levels. Not true. Overall biotech VC roughly stable for decade, w/ quarterly variation. 2 days ago
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Virtues of Differing Biotech Worldviews
March 27, 2012
Debating the merits of various biotech business models is in vogue today, in part as a response to the proliferation of experiments around the right form and function of the companies themselves. An often asked question: are we supporting CEOs
The Biotech Venture Capital Math Problem
March 15, 2012
Everyone has heard of the monster returns to some venture funds from high-flyng social media and technology companies: Facebook’s potential 800x for Accel, Google’s 350x for KPCB and Sequoia, Zynga’s 100x+ for Union Square, Foundry, and Avalon. These single big
High-Performing Boards in Early Stage Biotech
March 3, 2012
Having a highly functional and productive Board of Directors is a key ingredient for success for most companies, but its of particular importance for early stage startups. The web is full of advice around what are the “best practices” for venture-backed



