A founder’s guide to conversations with Midwestern VCs.
Kansas City VC Taylor Clauson shares helpful tips for talking to investors – specifically those in the Midwest. | learn more
Kansas City VC Taylor Clauson shares helpful tips for talking to investors – specifically those in the Midwest. | learn more
“Enter the Alexa Fund. Born with a $100 million investment from Amazon in 2015, the year after the debut of the Echo, the fund is part of the company’s effort to identify more Alexa-showcasing companies and products around the world.” |learn […]
This is great and really sad at the same time. “Ujimaa Medics is helping local kids save lives by training them to treat gunshot wounds at the scene of a shooting.” | learn more
Chicago’s restrictions on food trucks make the city rather inhospitable for them. The court could hear an argument to change the laws. | learn more
Here’s a neat story about some famous (old) musicians and copyrights. You can also hear the original inspiration(s) for the ringtone. | learn more
A Russian plane’s door broke, littering the runway and surrounding areas with diamonds and gold. People were told to stay out of the area. Instead, they went treasure hunting! | learn more
“Now scientists have demonstrated how effective a specially-designed form of graphene can be at purifying water with a pretty challenging test: the filter made water from Sydney Harbour safe to drink in one step.” | learn more
Ryan Bradley from WIRED went out into the desert with a panel from NBD Nanotechnologies that extracts water from thin air. | learn more
CB Insights offers a nice digest of many private companies applying engineering principals to biology, often by manipulating DNA. I think this field of science is truly transformational for the world. | learn more
Once again demonstrating the trouble with nutrition research: “After one year the results are in and it’s a draw.” | learn more