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Newsletter 15/2010
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September 2010
[gs]
That’s
all Folks! My Tribute to Daniel Primack from Thomson Reuters
or: You can
unsubscribe any time you like, but you don’t need to!
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Prologue:
August 26
That’s All Folks…
The sun is shining, the beloved BoSox are treading water and this is my final edition of the peHUB Wire.
As
you might imagine, leaving this brand behind was a very difficult
decision. Inertia is a powerful magnet. So too was the thought of going
solo, rather than marrying another corporate overlord. But I honestly
feel that this is the right decision for me, and my gut is right 50.1%
of the time.
Taken from: Daniel Primack, the peHUB Wire Newsletter, August 26, 2010
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Dear reader:
How many e-newsletters do I get each week?
Well, I think about one
hundred!
There are twice-daily
ones, there are the daily ones, the weekly newsletters, the
bi-weekly and the monthly ones and there are even those that seem to appear
whenever they like.
How many of those newsletters do I really read carefully and joyfully?
Two of them!
My own [gs] newsletter (this one!) – I may be excused for this as
I am writing it and I am vain – and the peHUB Wire
(formerly: PE Week Wire) from Thomson Reuters, that has been written by
Daniel Primack for the last years that I have been aware of it!
Funnily enough, the content of the peHUB Wire is really not much
of interest to my own work with gene-sensor.com
and Mass-Spec-Capital.com. About 90% of it is totally irrelevant
to our work and 8% of the remaining 10% we surely would become aware of
through other sources. So 2% out of 100% surely wouldn’t justify
reading this one.
The peHUB Wire is a general, world-wide venture capital and
private equity newsletter by Thomson Reuters and biotechnology and life
sciences companies are just a small part of everything covered.
There is simply one reason why I have read the peHUB Wire Newsletter: it was the most personal, best written and the most entertaining newsletter in a world of faceless "lists of industry news".
It has been written until the end of last month by...
Daniel Primack, thanks a lot!
Daniel wrote in his own style. You could read a story, you could agree
or disagree, or even don’t care at all. It could be about meat
production in Argentina, financial products in New York, internships in
PE firms, or holidays in the sun, the rain and the snow.
It has always been written in good style, with good humour, with
vision, with a standpoint and everything had a poetic, lovely quality
to it. It was definitely not the usual stuff of the "last ten, most
important news" of the industry.
When I started the [gs] Newsletter some years ago, the PE Week Wire was
my model and Mr Primack’s newsletter style my archetype and
model! I have to admit: We recently also started the "usually
stuff"-type of newsletter with our [MSC] Newsletter, which brings the
latest mass spectrometry news and not much more. Okay, it is
high-quality and we make it, but there is no poetry in it, at least not
now.
With the [gs] Newsletter I don’t wanted the usually news stuff, I
wanted a personal and interesting style. Like Robbie Robertson once
said: "You have to separate yourself from the pack!"
And like always, to be creative and an individual, you need somebody to show you the way – that was Daniel Primack for me.
Competition is always good, if it’s good!
Well, Thomson – or now Thomson Reuters – has always been
one of our major competitors. They are a very, very big fish and we are
a very small fish, in the wide, wide ocean of world-wide corporate and
business intelligence services.
But we try to stay away from the fields where we can’t compete
with the big fish and we hope they stay away from our core fields,
where right now they can’t compete with [gs]. And all in all I
believe that competition is good for all players in the market und
ultimately you, the customer.
Anyway, Thomson Reuters, lost a little ground with Daniel departing.
This is my tribute to Daniel Primack
Thank you Daniel for years of interesting newsletters, I wish you good luck for your future endeavours!
You can unsubscribe, but you don’t need to
This [gs] Newslettter is the first one that really has nothing at all
to do with life sciences and biotechnology – as it is
100%-modeled on the "old" peHUB Wire. So, surely, you can
unsubscribe and if you’d like to, this is a good moment, simply
reply to this e-mail without any comment.
But you don’t need to unsubscribe and I really would appreciate if you would stay with me and the [gs] Newsletter for some time!
Thanks for reading, back in two weeks with something from the life sciences!
Kind regards
Marcus Lippold
P.S. At least one final comment with regard to the life sciences industry may be allowed:
Roche last week announced a "Multi-target Alliance" with Aileron Therapeutics. This announcement had a real nice, real interesting and real great wide open space
between $25m (the guaranteed funding by Roche) and $1.1b (the total sum
if all milestones were met for all projects). This space makes me think
and dream about public relations, promotions, wonderful announcements
and the ever more convincing idea that ultimately "political
correctness" is such a drag.
Maybe I should resign from the Board of the German Federal Bank, but
I’m not on the Board, so why resign?! The general message seems
clear: just listen to what I mean and not to what I say.
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[iito] Business Intelligence
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Marcus Lippold
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