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Playing to win

Nature Biotechnology volume 27, pages 793–796 (2009)Cite this article

Business plan competitions can earn you more than a plaque for the wall and a pat on the back—they can provide start-up money, experience and the attention your idea needs to get off the ground.

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  1. Raymond Sekula is CEO & president of NeuralStemCells and assistant professor of Neurological Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. rsekula@andrew.cmu.edu,

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  2. Sasha Bakhru is CSO of NeuralStemCells, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,

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  3. Stefan Zappe is chief technology officer of NeuralStemCells and assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,

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Sekula, R., Bakhru, S. & Zappe, S. Playing to win. Nat Biotechnol 27, 793–796 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/bioe.2009.7

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