Club History
The name of our club advisor is...
Who is Professor Daniel Hooker?
This client company from last semester can be found in the ctown 7-Eleven convenience store.
Who is Chomps?
This GV member placed at Food Hackathon two years in a row and won the MARS product development competition.
Who is Eva Ho?
The term "unicorn" in VC implies...
What is a private startup valued above $1 billion?
Many farmers use this method of crop planning to prevent over-extracting the same nutrients from the soil in consecutive growing seasons.
Hint: most effective when a bed/field contains crops in the same botanical family or nutritional needs
What is crop rotation?
Grub Ventures is a ___ founded organization
a) female
b) POC (person of color)
c) female & POC
d) first gen
What is C, female & POC?
This past GV client has a storefront on the Ithaca Commons.
What is Lev Kitchen?
Many GV members serve as presidents of other clubs, at least 3 of them are...
Who are Eva, Sarvesh, Garrett, Kieri, def more
The difference between General Partners (GP) and Limited Partners (LP) is...
What is GP venture capitalists manage funds and make investment decisions while LP are investors who supply money to the fund?
Above this temperature (C or F) heat begins to significantly destroy and stop most harmful bacterial growth.
What is 60˚C/140˚F?
The year was GV founded is...
When is 2020?
This is the most clients GV has ever had in 1 semester.
What is 5 clients?
This current GV member was asked to drop out of Cornell their freshman year with a job offer from a top biotech company.
Who is Sarvesh?
The five key stages a startup goes through from concept to scaled business are...
What is pre-seed, seed, early stage (series A&B), late stage (series C+), and exit stage?
The Maillard reaction is a reaction between ___ and ____, whereas caramelization is a reaction of ____ to ____.
What is amino acids from proteins and reducing sugars from carbohydrates, sugars and high heat?
These current GV members have served as club president.
Who are Eva, Ben, Andria, and "Zach?"
This past GV client now sells their product in Erewhon.
What is Lattini?
This current eboard member ran a cake decorating business in high school.
Who is Laura?
Explain dilution of ownership
What is when the existing shareholders' ownership percentage is reduced due to new shares being created for additional investors?
White rice is less nutritionally whole than brown rice, so manufacturers developed a surface-dusting method to cling powdered vitamins to the grains and enrich the product. However, consumers are estimated to only receive 10-50% of the enriched vitamins and minerals due to this...
What is due to the habit of washing rice before cooking and/or cooking with an excess amount of water?
This company has had the most GV alumni post-grad.
What is Mondelez International?
These two GV clients have had the most projects with GV.
Who is AF Ventures and Acre Venture Partners?
These current GV members are on an IM Soccer team together!
Who are Ben, Eric, Garrett, Eshwar, and Angelina?
Name and explain the law of VC that validates assembling portfolios full of high-risk high-potential profit start-ups instead of start-ups showing safe incremental growth
What is the power law?
The power law is a VC rule that states a tiny fraction of all startup investments will generation nearly all financial returns. Most startups in a portfolio will completely fail, a few will make modest returns, and one or two will make massive successes to pay for the entire fund, generative profit for investors. It's impossible to predict these successful startups, so VC take chances on high-risk companies in hopes that one success will return the entire value of the fund.
This concept of soil science measures how well soil particles can store and exchange positively charged nutrient ions.
What is the cation exchange capacity (CEC)?