breadboxer

No mention of Yuri Milner on the application page, but just in case anyone overlooks the connection: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2014/02/12/illumina-yur...

$100,000 for 10% of an idea seems generous vs. most software accelerators. Wonder what they're expecting by loaning out all their equipment in a dedicated research facility? Are they expecting actual NGS improvements or are they hoping to facilitate non-NGS innovations that merely use NGS as a tool?

We just added a new page in our admin panel labelled 'dog food' and will be using that as a testing lab. The product we sell is a technology for sales teams and now that we are out selling ourselves we have a greater need for our own product.

Although the conventional wisdom is to build things you had a need for yourself, I believe this is one of the riskiest ways to create breakthrough innovations. Far easier to go find people who have a problem and who are not developers and get them to pay for something.