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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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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even What Has Changed in Financing?

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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. In 2018 alone, venture investments in space topped $2 billion for the first time, and 187 investors wrote checks to 90 startups, according to Bryce Space and Technology. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. .

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On Funding?—?The Denominator Effect

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Let’s assume that you’re a reasonably well-connected person, you have a strong network of friends & colleagues who work in the technology sector and you have many friends who are investors either professionally or as individuals. 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.

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7 Ways To Solidify The Confidence You Need To Succeed

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Of course, you can be overly confident or unrealistic in your expectations, without the skills or plans to run a business. Elon Musk, in his drive to put people on Mars through SpaceX , has already created new reusable spaceship technologies and many other new products. Gather more knowledge and consistently apply it.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Of course that’s not disputable. acquired Overture for $1.63 Structural.