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SpaceX Wins Two Air Force Missions

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX has scored a new win today, this time, with the United States Air Force. According to SpaceX, it has been awarded two, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions by the USAF, which will launch on the SpaceX Falcon in 2014 and 2015. READ MORE>>.

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8 Ways New Venture Founders Create Whole New Markets

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This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. For real entrepreneurs, crazy is a compliment, and the new market may be just around the corner.

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7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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The Surest Sign You’re Winning is When Goliath Takes a Swing at You

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In all of the usual chatter about LA’s great ascendency people love to mention Snap, Tinder, Riot Games, SpaceX and other well-know startup success. And while that sounds like a marketing ploy — as my friend I can tell you he says it privately when he’s at my house and when you’d imagine a VC would be telling him to raise prices.

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7 Characteristics Of People Who Drive Global Change

Startup Professionals Musings

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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7 Entrepreneur Types Drive Change On A Global Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.