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

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venture capital exits in. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. why (except widespread interest all year in the achievements of Hawthorne-based SpaceX, and. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. We have no idea.

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

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Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. Capitalize on free communal initiatives around you.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Getting to this list was not easy: we received over 700 nominations for people to be considered on the list, and it took a lot of work by our selection committee to whittle down the list to the finalists.

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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We invest both capital and an enormous amount of time and mentorship to help companies build the best businesses, as rapidly as possible. Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are making access to space easy, with private launch capabilities that never existed before. Mattt Kozlov: Yes, it's a three month format.

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Inspiring College Entrepreneurship | With lessons from Y Combinator and Elon Musk

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The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. We’ve also hosted Jonathan Badeen from Tinder and WIll Hsu from Mucker Capital.