Some startup concepts are easy to understand.
OrderUp wants to deliver food right to your door. Lyft will make sure you can call a ride to anywhere you need to go.
For Nick Hammond, he's dealing with startups that don't fit as easily into mainstream business and culture. As the associate vice president for innovation and economic development at the Institute for Marine and Environmental Technology, he's working with companies that want to turn algae into biofuel. Or companies that study molecular biology.
