socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Virgin Galactic said that Mojave-based Scaled Composites was granted the permit from the FAA to launch its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceshiptTwo, from its custom WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft. The firm said that the permit is a "major step" towards bringing its customers to space. Thursday morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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 can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors.

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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. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. Relativity Space signs the satellite transportation company Momentus as a new customer. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example, the development of reusable rocket technology by SpaceX and Amazon, who could not match NASA supplier budgets, has opened huge new opportunities in space travel and exploration. I’m often asked for the secret to this attribute in developing a team culture. For yourself, be very sensitive to first impressions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

If you can brand yourself as someone to remember, and someone who can deliver, I assure you that you will have no trouble finding investors, as well as customers. So how do you develop that reputation such that everyone believes in you, and customers jump to try your solution first?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. Alcohol brands are turning their attention to making hand sanitizer to distribute in communities experiencing shortages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2022

Steve Jobs of Apple may have been the most visible example of this ability to “see around the corner,” but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), and Elon Musk (SpaceX). People Development Magazine recently listed inspirational leadership (trust) as one of the top three characteristics business leaders must have today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. He entertains no sense of a static business.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology. Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Elon Musk, in his drive to put people on Mars through SpaceX , has already created new reusable spaceship technologies and many other new products. Confidence provides the energy, drive, motivation, and awareness to develop real competence. Gather more knowledge and consistently apply it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

For example, Elon Musk is recognized as a visionary entrepreneur, but his fortune and his impact has come from the great companies he has built, including SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and PayPal. Focus all initiatives around value to your customers. Investors like happy teams. Tie executive titles and organizations to business roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

They nurture connections to other innovators and entrepreneurs, financial benefactors, organizational leaders, and potential customers. Use social media channels, as well as conferences, to develop and maintain relationships. Remember that in business, sometimes who you know is more important than what you know. The cycle repeats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

You need to make believers out of your board, employees, prospects, as well as customers. Proactively seek out product, service, industry, and customer perception fears rather than suppressing them. They marched firmly ahead with their existing model, rather than reinvent themselves in the face of customers demanding change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Steve Jobs at Apple may have been the most visible example of this ability to “see around the corner,” but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), and Elon Musk (SpaceX). People Development Magazine recently listed inspirational leadership (trust) as one of the top three characteristics business leaders must have today.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

In the last two years, Starship’s name has been coming up a lot as a delivery partner helping companies get food order to customers at a time when delivery drivers were in shorter supply, people wanted to move around less, and generally come into less contact with humans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Sometime employees on your front lines have a better handle on what customers need next than external entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

In traditional investor parlance, these markets take years to develop and more money and risk than anyone should consider, so look first for a painful problem in a known market. They make a long-term strategy come alive for customers. In many cases, this approach fails by scaring investors and confusing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Customers and analysts are always looking for innovation indicators. These indicators are a mindset and actions that every one of us can develop and demonstrate, without any special birthright, genes, or advanced intelligence. Apple needs a product that jumps to the next curve. Always be looking “around the corner” for paradigm shifts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Elon Musk seems to be highest on this list these days, with his record-setting order rate on the new Tesla Model 3 all-electric car, and well as groundbreaking progress on SpaceX and SolarCity. Maintaining that balance between doing good and doing business is a key to success that investors and customers watch carefully.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

In the corporate world, events are more than just an event�they are opportunity to connect with your customers and turn potential customers into buyers. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. How do you make those events happen?

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

I suggest to customize your pitch for them. It may be the case that the engineer friend of yours at SpaceX won’t be able to join simply because she’s supporting her parents back home. If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Steve Jobs of Apple may have been the most visible example of this ability to “see around the corner,” but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), and Elon Musk (SpaceX). The most innovative leaders expect the best of everyone, and develop the guru in others. Most of you could suggest one more, but not many.

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