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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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Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Energetics of Fear and Greed in the Boardroom
October 25, 2012
Like many things driven by human nature, venture-backed biotech boardrooms often swing between the emotions of fear and greed. Fear of losing your shirt, or the greed of demanding more of the story than is warranted. It’s the age-old imbalance
Biotech IPOs Are Back! Maybe.
October 16, 2012
Two recent offerings, Kythera and Intercept, both ripped out of the gates with 20% rallies above their offer price last week. A flood of new S1 filings is to be expected. With all that inventory out there of emerging private
New Data on Venture Capital Returns: Exits Are Indeed Improving
October 3, 2012
Correlation Ventures, a new analytics-driven venture firm, just came out with some interesting data on US venture capital returns over the past decade. Instead of taking a “birth” vintage approach to returns, which is the way venture fund vintages and



