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While it's a draft and very cursory, resources like this are sorely needed and I hope encourages others to post more. Unlike tech, there's few place where you can learn how to build a biotech. It's a black art that most people still learn by doing.

Decades ago, tech was like this and then Paul Graham, Venture Hacks, Fred Wilson, etc. started a movement to democratize startups and VC. It would be wonderful if the same thing happened with biotech.

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Not sure what else is out there, but the TMCx accelerator program is specifically designed around biotech startups and was created to build up the (bio)tech startup ecosystem around the texas medical center (largest medical center worldwide)

https://www.tmc.edu/innovation/innovation-programs/tmcx/

There are a number of other incubators that are serving some of that role. The community is growing, but it's still fairly small.

In the biotech space part of that incubation/culture can come in the form of shared lab space. Here are a few (in the Bay Area):

- MBC (née QB3) https://mbcbiolabs.com/

- JLabs https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/

- StartX https://startx.com/med

- IndieBio https://indiebio.co/

- Bonneville Labs https://bonnevillelabs.com/

There are a number of other governments and entities that are trying to replicate and improve on the model.

Portland has OTRADI https://www.otradi.org/

(help add to the list?)

cheers, good to know.

to note, TMCx is also a JLabs site, fwiw

https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/locations/jlabs-tmc

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