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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.

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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

Over the next 18 years I was lucky enough to live in various corners of the world due to my father’s work (he worked in audit and risk with a big bank). Rather than being embarrassed, I will be candid and defer to following up with our engineering team. I have promised myself that will never happen again.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. We sat down to talk about what engineered meat means for the world and how something like this can seem crazy at first, but once you really dig into it, you realize it is actually quite genius.