by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Sep 4, 2026 | Biotech
Your startup can attract top talent with a dream, a promise, and a mission. However, retaining them? That’s another story. The Talent War Nobody Warned You About The Bay Area biotech job market is red hot. As of 2024, California’s life sciences sector has over 330,000...
by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Sep 3, 2026 | Biotech
Starting a biotech company is hard enough. Between funding and the burn rate, hitting milestones, and regulatory requirements, founder loneliness can become too much to bear. One factor that contributes to loneliness in founders is the space itself. If you can get a...
by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Aug 28, 2026 | Biotech
How many classes in grad school taught you how to set up a cap table? Or how to talk about the difference between a convertible note and a SAFE? Or even what’s required in a pre-submission document? Probably none. Because that’s not what grad school does. There’s a...
by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Aug 28, 2026 | Biotech
You found something new in the lab. Maybe it’s a new cell therapy target, a bio manufacturing process that could drastically reduce the price of a life saving medicine, or a battery material that could completely change how we store electricity. You have the results,...
by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Aug 21, 2026 | Biotech
Dr. David Kiewlich spent 18 months looking for lab space before he could conduct his first experiment as a founder. That’s 18 months of burn rate and no data. He had to go back to investors and ask for more money to get proof of concept data. His company needed...
by DAVID.KIEWLICH | Aug 20, 2026 | Biotech
It’s 2:47am. Your cells have reached the exact confluence you need for your assay. Your PCR is done running. Your western blot is ready to image. You have the data you’ve been trying to get for 3 months, and you need to review it. The problem? You’re not allowed...
