I finally took the leap to combine my experience, knowledge, and passion to design and build a product of my own. I am now on a journey of exploring how to transform an applied research project into a real-world solution.
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Nicoleta Spînu
Why I love talking to scientists
Let me share a founder’s secret: the most valuable conversation you could have next year might not be with a VC or a tech guru – it could be with a scientist. Early this year, I spent my holidays at a conference in London. My aim was to learn what the community has to say about a technology I’d been looking into for quite some time. A month later, I found myself talking and engaging with even more PhD students and postdocs from all over the world, from Dubai to San Francisco, from Belgium to Finland to South Korea....
What I learned at #EUROTOX2024
I continue to see how the cosmetic industry struggles with the adoption and validation of New Approach Methodologies. At the start-up I’m currently building, we are working on changing that. Being invited to present my computational-related projects on neurotoxicity (slides here), I attended this year’s edition of the Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX). I also took the opportunity to listen to others’ opinions and advances that could inform our direction....
On communities in open-source software
This is a collection of thoughts following my experience building communities and observations based on the most promising ones. For a bit more context, I founded my first community when I was 16 and this wasn’t a thing back then either, or not as much as today. I’ve been part of several communities, developing or growing them, more intensively for the past five years including in my last role. Also, I saw (lots) of mistakes and I came across founders who still avoid giving enough importance to this topic....