{"id":123754,"date":"2021-06-12T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-carbon-fiber-strong-enough-to-protect-airplanes-from-lightning-strikes-light-enough-to-create-performance-skis"},"modified":"2021-06-12T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:22:21","slug":"a-carbon-fiber-strong-enough-to-protect-airplanes-from-lightning-strikes-light-enough-to-create-performance-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-carbon-fiber-strong-enough-to-protect-airplanes-from-lightning-strikes-light-enough-to-create-performance-skis","title":{"rendered":"A carbon fiber strong enough to protect airplanes from lightning strikes, light enough to create performance skis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-carbon-fiber-strong-enough-to-protect-airplanes-from-lightning-strikes-light-enough-to-create-performance-skis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so easy to get support from Northeastern, especially considering that we were fresh out of college,\u201d Gurijala says. Through the Venture Mentoring Network, the co-founders were advised on how to create a business model and pitch investors. \u201cThey even connected us to our first investor. I\u2019m not sure we could have started Boston Materials without the support of the whole entrepreneurial ecosystem at Northeastern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston Materials, which recently raised $8 million from investors, is looking to expand its team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking to grow across the company, from the manufacturing team, to the engineering team, to the technical sales team,\u201d Gurijala says. \u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time. There\u2019s so much momentum behind us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was so easy to get support from Northeastern, especially considering that we were fresh out of college,\u201d Gurijala says. Through the Venture Mentoring Network, the co-founders were advised on how to create a business model and pitch investors. \u201cThey even connected us to our first investor. I\u2019m not sure we could have started Boston [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,493,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-climatology","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}