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How to survive
the Valley of Death?

The challenges during the scale-up are often described as "The Valley of Death": the phases between the Research & Development phase and the Commercialization where a lot of time and money has to be spend in order to overcome all technological, nutritional and regulatory problems. Every step forward in this scale up process will be more expensive as a result of testing on a larger scale in larger equipment.

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The end result of these hurdles is many times that the development takes much more time than anticipated and the funding runs short. As the funding depletes, startups struggle to secure additional investments necessary for solving the issues and realization of the commercial plant. 

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The Valley of Death

The phases are mostly about deriksing the scale up of the technology, product and market development. Although investments for a full scale commercial plant in general are much higher, this is an easier proposition with investors because the business case is de-risked and there will be revenues coming in at the end of this phase. 

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Surviving the Valley of Death can be done by making the curve less deep and as short as possible.

But how can that be done?! 

Key is to:​

How to survive the Valley of Death?

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