26: How the VC World is Taking Tech & Science To Market With Lindy Morris Fishburne, Breakout Ventures [Main T4C Episode]

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Lindy Morris Fishburne is the Managing Partner of Breakout Ventures, a venture capital fund. Lindy focuses on getting budding science and tech companies out of the lab and into the market. She is also the Executive Director of Breakout Labs which allows independent researchers and early-stage companies to advance their most radical ideas. Breakout Labs is not a typical foundation grant—they are a revolutionary, revolving funding model where successful projects fund the next generation of audacious scientific exploration. In her role as the Managing Partner of Breakout Ventures and Executive Director of Breakout Labs, Lindy works with the leaders of tomorrow to get them where they need to be today. Lindy graduated from Duke University.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What venture capital is and how it works (2:35)
• What venture capitalists do on a daily vs. big picture basis (6:51)
• How Modern Meadow is bio-fabricating leather using animal cells and without killing animals (10:04)
• How to build a winning team with diverse skill sets (16:23)
• Where to go to start networking in entrepreneurial ecosystems on campus or wherever you live (19:46)
• How to become an ambassador for Breakout Labs (20:11)
• What skills you need to enter the startup world (24:12)

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