"Startups are businesses that want to disrupt industries and change the world—and do it all at scale. Startup founders dream of giving society something it needs but hasn’t created yet—generating eye-popping valuations that lead to an initial public offering (IPO) and an astronomical return on investment."
From:
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/what-is-a-startup/Some interesting facts about
startups in general, gathered from various websites:
69% of all successful startups start from home.
The United States is by far the leading country by number of startups, followed distantly by India.
36% of all startups do not currently have a website. 35% of these small businesses believe they do not have enough capital to build a website.
Technology and healthcare startups are the strongest industry, bringing in the most revenue compared to other startup categories.
The most expensive startup costs are payroll: five employees will cost an average of about $214,000 per year.But unfortunately
9 out of 10 startups fail.
Only 40% of startups become profitable, and only 9% of startups survive ten years
Cash flow problems are the biggest eventual killer of startups, mostly resulting from a lack of ready-for-market products.
Failure rates are similar across all startup industries.And when we think of cancer research and innovation, we may tend to think of large, well-funded operations in large buildings with big labs, often associated with major cancer institutions or hospitals.
But it turns out that there are a good-size number of "startup" cancer-focused companies out there, per the above descript
ion of startup, that are also doing the kinds of things that contribute to progress against cancer.
We've all heard the semijoke about
the talented guy who builds something wonderful "in his garage." Well, the startup is kind of a real-life version of that.
Some examples of startups, for cancer in general:
https://www.ventureradar.com/startup/cancer#:~:text=top%20cancer%20start-ups%201%20odyssey%20therapeutics%20private%20company,private%20company%20founded%202019%20usa%20...%20more%20itemsSome more:
https://healthtransformer.co/meet-12-startups-helping-to-end-cancer-as-we-know-it-6790754d6032 AND even cancer startups focusing on PCa specifically:
https://medicalstartups.org/top/prostatecancer/Example of one of them:
https://convergentrx.com/Note that many of the startups mentioned in the above links have links to their own websites. Take a look at some of their websites, and see how well-designed and informative they are, such as the one immediately above.
And as the above links indicate, there do indeed seem to be a goodly number of startups concentrated on coming up with more and more tools for use against cancer, and possibly a much larger number of them than we may have realized.
And a little reading shows that startups are active in every phase of cancer work: from development of new drugs, to invention of new medical tools, new forms of hospital supplies, cancer-focused apps, and in every other area.
Regarding geographical distribution of startups, there may even be some operating near you. If you google
cancer startups (your geographic
location)
you may even find some at work in your own area right now.
I think something that makes the cancer startup so interesting is the sense of energy and imagination that so many of them exhibit. You can often sense it in their websites, along with a feeling of almost adventure on the part of the startups' founders and employees, of being on a kind of crusade, or righteous mission, to better the world's campaign against cancer.
And that makes for a kind of encouraging feel, that so many bright and ambitious people are forging ahead, by way of startups, to progress against the beast.
And because there are so many of them, both the startups and their people, one may think that a notable amount of good progress comes out of all that those people are doing.