Any recommendation on tools/book recommendation for learning financial modeling for life sciences BD/VC?

Trying to pivot from commercial background (MR, Sales) and wanted to at least get the basics

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There are some modules in BIWS that focus on that but tbh when it comes to estimating future market share for your asset and competitors, unless you’re doing large physician preference surveys, things get real hand wavy. Even those are hand wavy but the idea is with enough n, there will be some truth that rises above the noise. There’s only so much you can gather from secondary when projecting into the future. I don’t think the folks in ER do these large surveys though so so be it. The BIWS modules for exercises and the Pharmagellan Guide to forecasting for theory are the two resources I’d look into. Maybe you can set up a course yourself on ChatGPT or Claude or something if you know how to prompt for it.

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