This is really just a forum for me to get some things out there and see what we can get going. My original post was entitled "A Lost Shepherd" and was intended to be ironic but, instead, I think just got verbose and took itself too seriously. The Cliffs Notes version of it, is that after a lot of hard work and the establishment of what I thought was a good foundation for my career, I now find myself at an interesting point I had not predicted. Basically, I'm looking to completely change directions now that it's time to really get going. Academics is a disaster right now in the world of biomedicine and I'm not convinced it's going to get better any time soon.
Perhaps more importantly, I think that the real thing that drew me to science in the first place was my desire to know stuff. I like to know stuff. As a result, many things interest me. More to the point, things I don't know are what interest me. After being in science and medicine for about 12 years, I am starting to feel the pull to other things. I don't know much about the business or economics of biotechnology and know very little about bringing products to market.
This leads me to the conclusion that if I'm going to ever make a change, this is the time to do it. Now is the time to leverage my knowledge - things I do know - to get myself started in an area full of things I don't know.
So, through some rather serendipitous connections, I now find myself trying to get into the world of Venture Capital and feeling both incredibly overwhelmed with my loss of a concrete plan and unfathomably excited about all the potential opportunities. I hope to keep people posted on how this works out and on what progress I'm making.
I suppose that somewhere there's an appropriate reference to be made about being from Seattle and looking for a new team, much like guys from Seattle are now trying to figure out whether or not it's OK to root for the Blazers. I say, Go Brandon Roy!
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