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StartupRealities No 147 YoungRankings  produces annual standard-format rankings of children in relationship to various commercial brands and organisations, e.g. " 10 under 10 loyal ice cream X customers ", or " 15 under 15 girl scouts leaders ". To ensure that high ethical standards are maintained, rankings participation for under-age children and teenagers requires parental consent and is merit-based rather than consumption based. For example, ice cream customers are rated for their passion for the brand of ice cream, their creativity, social media profile, videos, and engagement with the brand - and not based on monetary value of the consumed ice cream. The company also gives profile and visibility to the parents of each ranked (winning) participant unless they request anonymity. CEO QUOTE "You have surely come across many of those 20 under 20, 30 under 30, 40 under 40 rankings. But no one before us had ventured into the under-15 or under-10 space. Child...

StartupRealities No 20 RegenerateSeafood Limited is an aquaculture company that farms seafood in an ethical and sustainable way: by harvesting octopus arms and stone crab claws without killing the animals. The octopus and the crab can regenerate missing limbs in the wild in an evolutionary adaptation of self-defence known as autotomy  (which is commonly seen on land with lizards detaching their tail). SCIENCE The company has selectively bred octopus and crab specimens that survive the limb separation without suffering any other negative effects and that can regrow missing limbs multiple times. The harvesting process is done only under anaesthesia. CEO QUOTE "The octopus and the crab are like the apple tree and the orange tree. We pick the apples and oranges and the trees grow them again the following year," company founder and CEO Regis Seaman said in an interview. "If all meat and fish could be produced in such a sustainable way, people would never again need to...