I How relevant are accounting cash flows in private biotech companies? In revenue-generating firms, decisions can often be guided by accounting metrics. For example, measures like ROIC or ROCE help assess performance. But biotech is different. Many biotech companies don’t…
How cooking led to evolution – Insights from hunter gatherer societies If given the opportunity to Time Travel and envision life 20,000 years ago, we would encounter a scenario where securing sustenance posed a constant challenge. Imagine stumbling upon an…
Can you value a biotech asset based on how much money you’ve spent developing it? By that logic, what would be the value of Nokia today if we simply considered its historic investment? Not very insightful, right? 💡 The key…
If your biotech is in Phase I/II, you likely need more capital to run your programs. One way to secure non-dilutive funding is through partnerships or co-development deals with large pharma companies. ⚠️ But there’s a catch: giving away too…
Assessing whether to invest in therapeutic companies poses a challenge, particularly due to the limited historical data available—either non-existent or insufficient for a thorough evaluation. Unlike revenue-generating companies, which benefit from parameters like ROIC to gauge capital reinvestment, therapeutic companies…
Short video of our event: Snippets of an intellectually challenging discussion of our event Managing complexity and value creation in Life Sciences organised on 29th November of 2022. Farmantra would like to thank everyone that attended our event for having…
In this video, we discuss how your thinking needs to stand out from the crowd. We discuss several examples to demonstrate how second order thinking could be applied, those examples relate to events related to professional and personal lives.
A fascinating discussion on the following topics: Probabilistic thinking The art and science of investing Scaling a company vs Person Decision making process ESG and implications in biotech
Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking Brilliance – thats the essence of Subtractive knowledge. We always tend to consider positive points to create value, but many times we cannot be confident if those positive points will work. Hence, eliminating the…
In this video we discuss two main factors that if controlled would assist in making a better decision. We also understand how our brain has conscious and unconscious parts and how there are constant fights between them.