| When
Doug took the position of joint CEO (Business) at this startup bioinformatics
firm, the founding scientists had barely penetrated their market,
yet were in possession of a core technology that added significant
value to, and significantly reduced the time and costs of, the protein
identification process which many of the World's leading Biotech
firms were competitively engaged in and heavily funded for.
see
bio.com's introduction to mass spectrometry
Doug's
goal was to either raise sufficient equity funding for rapid growth,
leading to an IPO, or to initiate and negotiate an acquisition by
a leading Biotech firm, while increasing software sales.
see
biospace press release
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