{"id":643,"date":"2015-01-06T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/?p=643"},"modified":"2015-01-15T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T15:58:40","slug":"bard-mba-15-candidates-brooklyn-commercial-aquaponics-startup-fully-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/2015\/01\/06\/bard-mba-15-candidates-brooklyn-commercial-aquaponics-startup-fully-funded\/","title":{"rendered":"Bard MBA &#8217;15 Candidate&#8217;s Brooklyn-Based Aquaponics Startup Fully Funded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if finishing up year 2 of your <a title=\"Bard MBA link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bard.edu\/mba\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBA in Sustainability<\/a> wasn&#8217;t enough work, <a title=\"Bard Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BardMBA\" target=\"_blank\">@BardMBA<\/a> &#8217;15 candidate <a title=\"Miles Chrettien indiegogo profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/individuals\/8798597\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Chrettien<\/a> decided 2015 was also the year to launch a startup, <a title=\"Verticulture Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VertiCulture?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Verticulture<\/a>. \u00a0Yes, you read that correctly. \u00a0Miles and his partners Jacob, Peter and Ryan launched a successful\u00a0<a title=\"IndieGoGo Verticulture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/verticulture-farms-aquaponic-startup-brooklyn-ny#home\" target=\"_blank\">IndieGoGo crowd funding campaign<\/a> at the end of 2014, raising more than their stated 10k goal to build a commercial rooftop aquaponics farm prototype in Brooklyn, NY. \u00a0Curious yet? \u00a0Thought so\u2026check out this video below for some inspiration, innovation, execution and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Verticulture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VertiCulture?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VertiCulture?fref=ts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Verticulture twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VertiCultureNYC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/VertiCultureNYC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if finishing up year 2 of your MBA in Sustainability wasn&#8217;t enough work, @BardMBA &#8217;15 candidate Miles Chrettien decided 2015 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,134,13,45,30,32,60,136,44,7],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-aquaponics","tag-brooklyn","tag-climate-change","tag-education","tag-mba","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-startup","tag-student-stories","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/files\/2015\/01\/20141014105239-Miles_Headshot.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}