Category Archives: Governance

By Cody Tranbarger, EIR at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC As the biotech industry trudges through its fourth consecutive year of middling performance and sluggish capital markets, corporate governance has become a salient

A biotech’s Board often plays important roles in shaping the company’s success or failure: contributing strategic guidance, providing proper governance, stewarding fiduciary responsibilities, raising a startups’ profile, aiding business development, to name a few. Over the life of a biotech,

As with everything in life, it’s always about the people.  Bet the jockey, not the horse.  Great entrepreneurs and C-level executives are very hard to come by in R&D-intensive biotech companies, and its probably one of the biggest bottlenecks in