Today's Entrepreneur is Robert Arauz, president of Innovation Choice Group. Innovation Choice Group is bringing to market a professional online network that finds rapid solutions to the urgent questions of biotechnology researchers, scientists, students and others central to the life sciences by providing a collection of trusted experts who can assist with their questions.
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Innovation Choice Group
Startups I worked for:
Innovation Choice Group
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to change the world.
My favorite startups:
Quirky, Mancx, Klout
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
That you need money just to begin, otherwise you just have an idea that can't be turned into a company.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Leave legal issues for later
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1) Patience
2) Take your time to make mistakes early
3) Don't expect things to happen the way you plan
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Innovation Choice Group is bringing to market a professional online network that finds rapid solutions to the urgent questions of biotechnology researchers, scientists, students and others central to the life sciences by providing a collection of trusted experts who can assist with their questions.
ICG, for short, is aiming to bridge the gap between individuals seeking expertise in a medical/scientific/research inquiry and the available resources to answer such inquiries. Currently, those fields mainly use a “scientific journal-only” approach to solve issues and Innovation Choice Group believes that this method is not the best way to go about this process. Data can be outdated, difficult to access, unavailable for free or not exactly relevant to the question at hand. Instead, ICG will allow users to access the portal in order to directly interact with experts who can provide approaches and/or a detailed explanation of how to tackle your question.
In esence, we seek to change the way people do medical/scientific research; paper-based approaches will not end any time soon, but with ICG’s portal, scientists all over the world can access an “expert crowd-sourced community” which dynamically adapts to the user’s needs and facilitates innovation in the most efficient fashion. And unlike our competitors, we actually verify/vet registered users who want to bid answers to the scientific questions. In this way, complete transparency is assured and scientists will be more eager to participate in our portal.
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Founder and CEO of Innovation Choice Group LLC. Trained as a Bioengineer and chemist, I have worked in the biotech field long enough to understand that there has to be a better way to do research.
