A Few Suggestions…

August 10, 2018

Keystone suggestion
This article is about how Elon Musk thinks, and it goes pretty in depth on that topic.
This free book is explaining First Principles.

Great things from interviews:

1) Weed Killing Robot
2) 2018 Alzheimer Facts and Figures
3) State of Foodtech 2018
4) 3 Big Biotech Trends 2018

Three great Ted talks:
1) How to measure goals.
2) What we can learn from the largest Nature Preserve, which just so happens to be in the ocean.
3) Fascinating things down deep in the ocean.

A few fun articles: 
1) How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?
2) Automated Feature Engineering in Python
3) 19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier
4) Warning: Don’t Try This Biohacking at Home

Book Recommendations:

1) The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

 

  1. 7:00 ] About her day, how Y Combinator works, and working with the companies.
  2. 8:25 ] What startups are actually like on the inside vs how they are perceived on the outside.
  3. 9:30 ] Learning about her outreach and recruiting tours.
  4. [ 11:00 ] Changes in Startup funding: From having to know investors to just applying to YC.
  5. 12:30 ] 30% of applicants from the last batch is international and the thoughts on that.
  6. 39:00 ] How Yc internal is setup vs other firms.
  7. 43:00 ] The things she pays attention to in order to determine if it a company and team will be successful.

Podcast Episode 31: Dr. Kate Krueger, Research Director at New Harvest – Discusses Cellular Agriculture, Building a New Industry, and How to Get Involved

  1. 02:20 ] Why she choose Cellular Agriculture and New Harvest, and how she found her way into New Harvest (i.e. Starting at Perfect Day). Also, she gets into what she is doing now.
  2. 05:55 ] How she describes New Harvest, and the benefits of having a non-profit organization pushing and developing Cellular Agriculture. How the process of innovation happens with drugs, which is a good analogy to what they are trying to do.
  3. 07:00 ] How cellular agriculture and lab meat is similar to Solar.
  4. 07:45 ] Their funding, other funding in the space, and the benefits of having New Harvest working on creating open-sourced patents and technologies.

 

 

 

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