Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties

In her presentation at last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston, SOSV general partner Pae Wu tossed out the tongue-in-cheek phrase “recovering academic” to describe founders in the firm’s IndieBio program.
It’s a fitting label, given many founders in the program are academics, and their journey from academia to accelerator has its share of growing pains as they often have to adapt to the business world without a business degree.
While many such early-stage startups look outside of their founding team to add to their C-suite, Wu explains that the best approach is often simply developi

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