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Nature Biotechnology 27, 883–885 (1 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/nbt1009-883

Credibility: your most important asset

Douglas MacDougall & Jennifer Conrad

What do you think sells your company to the outside world? A promising pipeline? A stellar founding team? A solid intellectual property (IP) portfolio? Those things won't hurt, but credibility may be the most important asset for a startup biotech company (and a public biotech company for that matter). Credibility is your best weapon when facing pipeline delays, regulatory rejections, IP challenges and all the other inevitable issues that are part of a biotech venture.