Mon.Jan 02, 2017

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SpaceX Targets Launch From Vandenberg For Sunday

socalTECH

Hawthorne-based SpaceX announced on Monday that it will attempt to launch its first payload into space since an accident in September at Cape Canaveral. According to SpaceX, it will now attempt to launch ten Iridium satellites on Sunday, January 8th, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is north of Santa Barbara, California. SpaceX announced the launch, from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E), after clearance by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on conclusion of an investigat

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Watching for NIH Innovation in 2017—and Drug Pricing, Trade Deals

Xconomy

With the inauguration of Donald Trump as president on January 20th, the editors asked some of our Xconomists to offer their thoughts on “How could the incoming administration significantly affect your industry?” When I worked in the Reagan Administration, the “Gipper” used to handle questions like this by saying he couldn’t respond to hypothetical questions.

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9 Steps To Increasing Your Street Smarts In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

People who are good at solving problems for other people make great entrepreneurs. That’s what a business gets paid to do. The challenge is not the same as inventing a new technology, or finding things that make you feel good, and assuming that everyone will want one. In business, the ability to solve problems is called “street smarts,” and it’s more valuable than “book smarts.

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