L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

billion off Snap's market value; investment fund Vision Esports raises $38 million; and SpaceX successfully launches, but narrowly misses catching $6 million nose cone. Kylie Jenner’s tweet cuts $1.3

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the commercial spaceflight startup headed by ex-PayPal founder Elon Musk, has named a new president the firm said this week. SpaceX said that Gwynne Shotwell has been named as President, reporting to Musk. The firm is venture backed by The Founders Fund and Elon Musk.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab said on Thursday that it has raised a big new funding round, worth $140M, in its Series E funding round. The funding brings its total raised to more than $288M. The firm says it is now worth more than $1 billion after the latest funding.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based NI0 , a new startup in the sports and nutrition vertical, is gearing up for launch, backed by $500,000 in seed funding from a number of tech investors. The startup is aiming at the athletic training and recovery market, with a new sports tape which incorporates supplements. Riot Games). READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

base of operations and SpaceX’s significant presence has born a number of talented hardware and engineering startups. Collectively, the 40 alumni companies who have participated in Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program have raised over $126 million and have a combined market cap of $328.6 and Los Angeles angel investor.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Elon Musk , the technology mogul behind Los Angeles-based SpaceX and The Boring Company --already under fire by investors at Tesla Motors for his recent inconsistent, public statements--boldly took a puff of marijuana on a YouTube broadcast on the Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday evening. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. More success has been logged with companies like Amazon, which lightly funds many business model experiments each year, and is not hesitant to pivot or learn from failures.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Now it’s picking up some funding along with an endorsement Europe to further its growth. The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. The funding from the EIB ticks a couple of different boxes for the EU.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

Why: Rumored to be very profitable, waiting on market. SpaceX [ profile ]. Backers: Elon Musk, Founders Fund. Why: Interest in electric cars at a high; successful IPO at Tesla (see SpaceX) might have been driving these rumors. Business: Commercial spaceflight. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. If you don’t keep it top of mind today, then you are going to be left behind.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

The billionaire SpaceX chief certainly knows how to build an AI company, having co-founded ChatGPT owner OpenAI back in 2015, only to sell his stake three years due to a perceived conflict of interest with his electric vehicle company Tesla.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Manufacturing can be done within 60 days, according to the company’s claims, and its vehicles have a payload capacity of up to 1250 kilograms ( SpaceX’s largest rockets will have roughly 100 times that payload capacity). space industry. “We’re really really truly focused on the rockets for now,” says Ellis.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since its inception, HTT recognized that creating a market around a mode of transportation that had not yet been created would take a movement. Originally incorporated as Hyperloop Technologies, Hyperloop One is the second company to enter the market to actualize the Hyperloop concept. northeastern corridor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I’m convinced that it’s a lot more than the foibles of any specific market, availability of funding, and just luck of the draw. His focus on SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, and other initiatives all have a large component of “shaping the future,” as well as meeting business objectives. I believe the best make their own luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. 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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

” – Elon Musk, Founder Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Not only is Sieva attending Wharton this Fall, he and his partners, Hansae Catlett (Stanford), Hiro Tien (Stanford) and Josh Hoffman-Senn (Harvard), will launch The MBA Fund later this year. MBA’s are an easy target for entrepreneurs’ scorn.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. It's a marketing experience.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July. By creating a secondary market for private shareholders, companies like Forge Global can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

In this era of rapid market and technological change, I know I have to challenge my small business advisory clients to keep innovating and stay ahead of the game. Other champions of innovation, including Elon Musk with SpaceX and Hyperloop, always seem to be building future opportunities from trends and technology turns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Exhibit market awareness and a drive to win. Indeed, internal innovators usually don’t have the risk tolerance of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, who invested nearly everything into SpaceX. He knew well IBM executive sensitivity to open architecture, third-party suppliers, and micro technology, and used it to leverage funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

And on the flipside, there are so many companies that get funding and are growing, yet it is really hard to figure out who they are.”. Talent needs often range from engineers, UX/UI designers, biz dev, marketing/pr, project managers and community managers. Recruiting for startups is a nice problem to have, but it is still a problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

Elon Musk has done it with SpaceX and Tesla, and Steve Jobs did it on a regular basis at Apple. It’s time for the executive team and advisory board to commit the necessary funds and people resources to complete the plan. For startups, this will likely require a funding effort with friends and family, or grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. If anything I’d like to fund 5 more teams and projects this ambitious. And that is what we’ll do.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Joining him on the panel was Kimbal Musk, CEO of The Kitchen Community and co-founder of PayPal and SpaceX. For example, the entrepreneurs they have funded under their strict social impact criteria are solving problems in bilingual education, disrupting payday lending or even finding low cost solutions to prison phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. But this post is about the broader context of LA. And this is true.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

You begin to think about how hard it will be to fund raise, sign customers, hire employees, etc. 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. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic. That’s what bullies want.

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