
What happened to my startups?
"Is this a real startup?", I would often ask myself in the time between working on projects.

"Is this a real startup?", I would often ask myself in the time between working on projects.

The purpose of this post is to force myself to reflect on my life decisions, have a record of my decision process as a young adult on the internet forever, and help someone.
I've been telling people my goal is to start a company at some point during my Ph.D, and since I'm going to be in LA for the foreseeable future, I did some intense DuckDuckGo-ing to examine the state of LA's biotech scene.
For people generally interested in biology, computers, medicine, and engineering there are too many fields for what feels like the same thing.
I am now a terrible writer. I intentionally misspell words, use the wrong form of there/their/they're, and have proved that my high AP English test score meant literally nothing.
About a week ago I was feeling overwhelmed by my minimum wage paycheck and impulse bought a 3D printer.