Dan Connell

building @Newlab 🧪 🌉

[Newlab @Newlab]

Last week, over 1,500 entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers joined us at Newlab Brooklyn for New Climate Futures, closing out Climate Week with powerful discussions on commercializing tech for a sustainable future. 🌍

[ian @IanRountree]

STOP THE PRESS! Cultivated meat was just approved by the FDA! Doesn’t mean you’ll see @upsidefoods at the grocery store soon though. They still need USDA approval (probably a longer process than FDA) and there are still scale hurdles. But this is progress! https://t.co/zUF07dnUlQ

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@RohdeAli @abhijeetpatra88 @beondeck appreciate you building this! it's awesome. any chance you could make the Airtable copy-able / allow the data to be synced? would help our founders when they are trying to create their own outreach list

[Bel Kepson (née Thompson) @bel_kepson]

George Heilmeier was one of America's great engineers & a DARPA director.

In 1992, he laid out how to:

• Enable game-changing innovations
• Fix tech transfer

But: 30 years later, our innovation process still fails us.

Why?

What's the framework to fix it? 🧵

[Newlab @Newlab]

"The time is right to build infrastructure businesses to scale cellular agriculture."

The Newlab Venture Studio is working toward a future of animal and plant products without the animals and plants.

Image: Nick Counter

https://t.co/nNe0ApRRld

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@almostcmb couldn't live without their Excel macro for a period of years

[Sandro Roco @alessandroroco]

Today, @drinksanzo is announcing our $10mm Series A.

Our mission has been simple, yet I suppose ambitious, enough: to bridge cultures.

But tho an important milestone, this was by no means a guaranteed step in our journey (1/n)

https://t.co/7bBmzZxEEJ

https://t.co/H9QIYfRT4S

[Susan Su @susanfsu]

If you’re thinking of joining an early stage startup, especially in a senior role, you need to think like a VC

I’ve personally left life-changing $ on the table because I didn't know the right questions to ask

Sharing a partial list below

[Jay Wright @CoachJayWright]

Thank you to @VillanovaSpO for rocking the Finn last night - One of our favorite nights of the year !!

[AlwaysSunnyNYC @AlwaysSunnyNYC]

Can’t argue with @asanwal and @CBinsights data

NY is 🔥

You can feel the energy and excitement throughout the city. Thanks @fredwilson for calling that out in today’s @avc blog

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@goldenboy721 salary, equity, bennies, you name it

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

I have *logged on* to share that

I am hiring an Associate who will work with me in @newlab's venture studio. They will manage EIR programs, identify and research new business opportunities, and ultimately support founders to launch new ventures

JD: https://t.co/Pfz9EH3lSe

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

https://t.co/TvEl3YdGfN

[Stephen Chambers @spchambers007]

Great vibes @newlab in Brooklyn, awesome space - thanks to David Belt & @dpconnell for showing me around - great things happening here for #entrepreneurship #innovation & frontier #tech #sustainability in #NYC

[Annelies Gamble @AnneliesGamble]

Metrics for Series A rounds are much less clear than they used to be. Different investors have different frameworks for evaluating opps. But there are still signals that every investor looks for.

More here https://t.co/fEtuvvKSpr
And thread 👇
1/11

[Geri Kirilova (she/her) @geri_kirilova]

having reviewed thousands of apps for our 25+ interns and 180+ @ventureco_op members, I'm both hyped and terrified to share that we're hiring an associate!

this is our first full-time investment team addition since I joined Laconia in 2017 😌 let's go!

https://t.co/HCauaJFUt4

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@DanMarcustweets @englishpaulm @Newlab thank you Dan 🙏 you should come by here too!

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@DanMarcustweets @englishpaulm @Newlab sadly I can't see this

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

https://t.co/oOgdxgvQYb

[Dan Connell @dpconnell]

@cm_brown90 I guess you missed the line in Levels about how centralized platforms will be needed in a decentralized world.