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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. The company has an R&D pipeline of similar food allergy areas it will address.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). I was on vacation in Santa Barbara two years ago with my wife and I was reflecting on what I had learned in my first year in LA and in VC. I couldn’t.

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