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Elon Musk's SolarCity Sets IPO Pricing Range

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Southern California entrepreneur Elon Musk has huge success this year, in (literally) getting commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX --based in Hawthorne--off the ground and into space, with a hugely successful set of flights to the International Space Station (ISS). Musk's last IPO success was electric car maker Tesla Motors. Musk owns 30.6

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. why (except widespread interest all year in the achievements of Hawthorne-based SpaceX, and. We have no idea.