Angel Invest Boston Diane Stokes, Founder and Angel - Iron Woman 2
Feb 2, 2022
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Click to Learn About Opportunities in Angel-Scale Biotech Diane Stokes, founder and angel investor, is back to update us on her startups. This inspiring triathlete has great ideas for startups who want to scale. Highlights:
- Sal Daher Welcomes Back Iron Woman Diane Stokes, Founder & Angel
- This Interview Picks Up Where the Prior Interview Left Off – Back to Wyebot
- How Wyebot Weathered COVID
- Diane Stokes and Colleagues Formed a Firm to Help Startups Grow
- Squadle – Promising Startup in Which Diane Stokes and Sal Daher Invested
- Dermal Photonics – Diane Stokes Is Trying Their Product
- Dermal Photonics Is Championed by Super Angel Jeff Arnold Who Has Been on the Podcast
- Sal Daher’s Standing Question: How to Get More Angels to Do Biotech
- “He discovered that VCs are not doing the small-scale biotech anymore. By small scale is a company that could sell for $200 million.”
- “They all want to have the next Moderna.”
- “One of the things is, is it manufacturable? How do you get to scale on your manufacturing, if it's not even at that stage yet?”
- Diane Stokes Believes Angels Have to Be Shown the Possibilities of the Biotechnology Beyond the First use Case
- “The resource we have an abundance of, are brilliant academics with no business experience, but with tremendous motivation.”
- “If you get a physician that is open to having somebody work with them and know what they don't know in that, it can be very successful and I think this is similar.”
- “Being able to understand the state of where your organization is, what help you need, where to spend that newly acquired funding that you received.”
- Diane Stokes Plans to Do a 2000-mile Bike Ride to Fight ALS
Topics: management, angel investing strategies, biotech, pivot