Ask Us Anything (Except Our Five-Year Plan): Sprout Informatics’ First Twelve Months

​Last fall, Liyang Diao and Michael Seiler jumped feet-first into building Sprout Informatics, a fractional computational biology and bioinformatics consultancy for early-stage biotechs.

​You might be wondering: After the initial honeymoon period, how did it go?

​Join us for a candid conversation about what the first year actually looked like, moderated by BWIB members Isha Parikh, who interviews bioinformaticians about their career paths for the BWIB blog, and Lakshmi Kuttippurathu, a fellow entrepreneur starting her own company.

​Topics could include:

• ​Finding our niche

• ​Pricing, scoping, and other things we did wrong

• ​Uncertainty: what you can live with, and what you can’t

• ​What we miss and what we don’t from working the 9-to-5

​We’ll kick off with a few anchor questions, then open the floor to you.

Whether you’re thinking about consulting, starting something of your own, or just curious what life outside a single company looks like, bring your questions.

​Nothing is off-limits (except, as noted, our five-year plan).