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Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

Quality control is a core value proposition for Science Exchange, where all suppliers are qualified before being listed on the marketplace, ensuring high standards.

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A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders

@ Y Combinator

A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders

10/03/18

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Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

Science Exchange continuously monitors supplier performance, allowing them to confidently recommend providers based on data-driven insights.

Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

I'm the founder and CEO of Science Exchange, a marketplace for scientific collaboration where researchers can order experiments from the world's best labs.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

Marketplaces like Science Exchange need to be the platform that companies use for all their projects, not just a one-off shopping experience, to be truly effective.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

The main competitor for Science Exchange is the status quo, as many companies still rely on outdated processes like SharePoint to manage external vendors.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

The decision to initiate the reproducibility initiative was a game-changer for Science Exchange, enhancing its branding and opening doors to pharmaceutical partnerships.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

The biggest challenge for Science Exchange when it started was convincing the conservative pharmaceutical industry to use the platform.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

I started Science Exchange because I saw how scientific research was evolving and becoming more specialized and multidisciplinary, which made collaborations inefficient.

Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

I started Science Exchange to solve my own problem as a breast cancer researcher who was frustrated with the process of farming out experiments.

Elizabeth Iorns

10/03/18

@ Y Combinator

In a hundred years, Science Exchange will continue to enable scientific breakthroughs by providing infrastructure for collaboration among researchers.