Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups,and particularly more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". So what happens when you combine those cheap sensors and compute power -- and apply it to bio? Cheaper costs and Moore's Law-like effects may mean lower barriers to entry, or the ability to experiment more often and more easily,and other AWS-like effects for a novel wave of bio company founders. But is all this just about cost … or about something more? And how achieve we know if this time is really different when it comes to bio startups? MORE
Source: a16z.com