Academia to Entrepreneur: How and Why to Leave Academia Behind

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Academic to Entrepreneur: Why and how to leave academia behind William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach Mendeley william.gunn@mendeley.com twitter: @mrgunn

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How many of you currently have tenure-track faculty as your top choice?

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My story

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In academia

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The advice I got • Good: Pick a stable, well-funded lab where people graduate on time • Good: Diversify project risk • Bad: Keep your head down, work hard, and it’ll all work out

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1. Seek advice from the people who can give it Lessons

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The first transition: Grad school to Biotech

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I was part of something!

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It was a little isolating

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Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. (1991)

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1. Seek advice from the people who can give it 2. Know Thyself Lessons

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The second transition: Biotech to tech startup

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A desire to make things better

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Early Adopter

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Achievements • OA policy advocacy successes • a tool that doesn’t suck

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Instrumenting the Research Workflow Search Read Annotate Organize Write Import

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The workflow starts with finding research You can also: l Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases l Sync with other reference management webapps l Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from online databases l Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

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The workflow starts with finding research http://www.mendeley.com/import/

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The workflow starts with finding research http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

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Set up and manage your reference groups Add tags & notes and edit document details Library showing all your documents (citation or table view) Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications Step 2: Organization in Mendeley Desktop

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Citing in Word & Open Office Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

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Citing in Word & Open Office Citation will show up based on selected style Cite into Google documents or other editors by copy & paste Generate a bibliography in one click!

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..and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data.. Mendeley helps researchers work smarter

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Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

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http://swets.com/mendeley

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..helps researchers work smarter ..makes science more collaborative and transparent ..is creating the world’s largest open research database Tools of scientific discovery Mendeley..

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Network of 1,000 Advisors at the world’s top universities, spreading the word at their institutions http://www.mendeley.com/advisors/

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1. Seek advice from the people who can give it 2. Know Thyself 3. Look Beyond the Surface Lessons

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Forget what you know about jobs outside of academia.

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BLOG!

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Stay • What do you want to do? • Will you find "Flow"? • Realistic impression? • Supportive network? • Are you young?

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Go • Frustrated by lack of impact? • Like to write? • Want to influence policy? • Are you too charismatic?

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tinynazispiders.spreadshirt.co.uk

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Network!

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Not just standing around talking to people

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1. Seek advice from the people who can give it 2. Know Thyself 3. Look Beyond the Surface 4. Do Interesting Things Lessons

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Such as blog

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FINDING OPPORTUNITIES http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience /tag/transitions

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Reaching Out!

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In your department • Be a speaker, symposia, conference organizer or session chair • Your local Biotech Club • MassBio • Your local Postdoc Association

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MAKING THE TRANSITION •Goals •Mindset •Time management

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Grants vs. Sales

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Time pressure

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Teamwork vs. solo research

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1. Seek advice from the people who can give it 2. Know Thyself 3. Look Beyond the Surface 4. Do Interesting Things 5. Communication is Everything Lessons