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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Is that wrong? Does it hurt ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs? Is it human?

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

35:24) Andrew on what comes after social distancing. (39:27) And then, when COVID happened, we felt an obligation to see if our technology had any application there and went with it once we saw there was promise. And our core technology focuses on disabling sperm cells from getting close to the egg, and ultimately fertilize an egg.