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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Technology mogul Elon Musk has made huge waves in Southern California with his success at Hawthorne-based commercial rocket and spaceflight company SpaceX. Musk said on Twitter that he believes SpaceX will go public at some point saying that "it should ultimately be owned primarily by the public". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

said the acquisition will add its presence with an office in Boston. Event Farm counts such clients as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Lamborghini, WIRED, SpaceX, and NASCAR. Event Farm--which already has offices in Santa Monica and Washington D.C., READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2017

SpaceX (www.spacex.com). SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, is now worth between $12 billion and $15 billion, according to multiple reports. The company's founders are veterans of SpaceX. (and no, there aren't any entertainment-technology companies anywhere in sight). The space rocket maker is run by Elon Musk.

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JULY 11, 2017

Elon Musk , the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has acquired the domain name X.com , from PayPal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Elon Musk had started X.com in January of 1999, before it merged with Confinity and became PayPal.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Musk--who is also head of Hawthorne-based SpaceX -- said earlier this week that he had "Funding secure" to take Tesla private at $420 per share. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into a series of tweets made by technology mogul Elon Musk earlier this week, where he said he was looking into taking Tesla private. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Vector was founded by some of the original team members at SpaceX. The company had raised more than $100M in venture financing, from such investors as Kodem Growth Partners, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, Sequoia, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth. But they can be spectacular growth vehicles when they work.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

It's been a big weekend for tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, after another successful launch Sunday from his commercial spaceflight firm, SpaceX--based in Hawthorne--and, it turns out, another IPO filing for Musk.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

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). READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

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. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. We have no idea. its launch to the International Space Station).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Elon Musk is doing both of these, first by expanding his Tesla electric vehicle initiatives beyond cars, into self-driving taxis and trucks, and secondly by entering new domains of transportation with SpaceX and Hyperloop. Implement a plan of regular strategic acquisitions. He entertains no sense of a static business.

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JUNE 2, 2011

SpaceX [ profile ]. Why: Interest in electric cars at a high; successful IPO at Tesla (see SpaceX) might have been driving these rumors. Backers: Institutional Venture Partners, Kayne Anderson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Polaris Venture Partners. Why: Rumored to be very profitable, waiting on market. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2012

There have been a few companies rumored to be working on IPOs in Southern California: SpaceX and Hulu have been mentioned as candidates: but it's unclear if the huge reception for Facebook may spur those firms or others to actually file for an IPO. In comparison, Facebook's IPO today will raise $18.4 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2019

That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2 More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Patents can raise startup valuation by investors by as much as a million dollars, and will attract acquisitions rather than copycats. Very few people have both, but there are some notable exceptions, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Elon Musk , founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Other champions of innovation, including Elon Musk with SpaceX and Hyperloop, always seem to be building future opportunities from trends and technology turns. Allocate funds for intrapreneurship and acquisitions. He didn’t wait for competitors to prove current products obsolete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

For example, in the entrepreneur world there are people like Elon Musk , who has demonstrated not only innovative ideas, but also impressive results in SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and Hyperloop. In the enterprise environment, Jack Welch led GE through 600 acquisitions in emerging markets, to a market value of $280 billion.

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JUNE 28, 2018

But it is even more rare for a company to do that while also scaling its revenue at such an impressive clip and with no paid customer acquisition. Bird is the natural evolution in billion-dollar++ outcomes in LA. This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

2017 was the year SpaceX demonstrated their premise of reusability to bring down the cost of satellite launches and space travel, with multiple Falcon rockets and a reused capsule giving repeat performances. Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods this year is just another very visible step in their expansion.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal. Finally, and probably his best-known company, SpaceX is Musk’s third hyper-successful business. What would this list be without Elon Musk? billion in shares.

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