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SpaceX Ready For Wednesday NASA Launch

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch yet another payload into space for NASA, saying all systems and weather are go for the 6:51 p.m. SpaceX is launching the payload on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX Successfully Launches, Lands New Rocket Design

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Hawhorne-based SpaceX , the rocket and spacecraft developer led by technology mogul Elon Musk, successfully launched and landed a brand new rocket design on Friday, while successfully delivering a satellite into orbit for Bangladesh. SpaceX put its new Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket into space from Cape Canaveral at 4:14 p.m.

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SpaceX Launches Dragon Music Video

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You've just spent millions developing your own rocket to launch to space, created your own space capsule, convinced NASA to let you launch it into space, and have astronauts connect it to the International Space Station. Create a highlights video, set to music -- of course. What do you do next?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. We also have a world that is, as Thomas Friedman so elegantly put it?—?“ HP Style) are dead.

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

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Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. . Air Force and more. .

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

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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. Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk.

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On Funding?—?The Denominator Effect

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In the current market it’s not that hard to find executives leaving: Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Snap, Salesforce.com, SpaceX … you name it?—?to And of course the 7 or 8 deals would be different from the 4 or 5 you first saw and were ready to fight for. I’d be willing to bet that you’d even see a lot of deals that seem amazing.

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