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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

TechCrunch

I wrote about Coral Vita late in 2019 when I encountered co-founder Gator Halpern on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance’s Accelerator at Sea. Not that privately funded projects are somehow fundamentally tainted, but this type of restoration work tends to be seen as the milieu of nonprofits and government agencies.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

billion in research and innovation it has to spend this year. Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people.

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

There’s no stopping innovation, however, and alternative sources of protein are increasingly becoming a choice people would rather make. Across cultures and geographies, animals have been such a vital part of the food chain that it’s hard to imagine a world where animals are not put to the knife to produce protein.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

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Investments target research and commercialization activities to spur innovation ~ . Managed by the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), the CRCF is aligned with and guided by the Commonwealth Research and Technology (R&T) Strategic Roadmap. Governor McAuliffe Announces Research Commercialization Awards.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This created a de-facto duopoly long before either company had proven that it has a sustainable business model. However, Hoffman and Yeh do a good job of explaining the conditions in which blitzscaling makes sense: The market has to be really big; there has to be a sustainable competitive advantage (e.g.,