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Success is in the blood The toil and sweat of biotech pioneer Imants Lauks.a
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When Imants Lauks closed the books earlier this month on a deal that will lead to the sale of his second biotech startup, he felt a profound sense of relief.
"It is tremendously draining as an entrepreneur,'' he says.
"You're on the edge all the time.''
That's especially true of pioneers in biotech, an industry that consumes venture capital at a prodigious rate but produces very few winners.
Lauks, 57, beat the odds with Epocal Inc., a nine-year-old firm that makes technology for quickly analyzing blood in health-care facilities and the home.
Lauks shuns publicity and is visibly uncomfortable discussing his personal achievements.
However, he is very easy with staff -- perhaps 100 strong at Epocal -- who are used to seeing him stroll through the labs in black T-shirt and jeans.
"He forgets to shave now and then," notes one employee.
"It's part of the scientist in him."
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