socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2016

Tesla Motors rolled out its latest vehicle, the Model 3 in Hawthorne last night, at its offices next to SpaceX. The Model 3 is Tesla's first reach down into the truly mass market, with a price of only $35,000 before incentives.

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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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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. Of course, customer relationships, and penetration into new market segments are also critical elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

Elon Musk , for example, has been able to achieve SpaceX success largely by tying efforts to the future of mankind in their travels to other planets. If your business is health-technology related, I urge you to share this with your team, and with customers, and ask for their help, versus leaning on profitability, price, and process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Populating new domains to sustain your market. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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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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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Prices for the service can vary by city and location, but as an example a service that it provides to grocery chain Coop in Milton Keynes is made for a flat fee of 99 pence. The addressable market for campuses that would likely use Starship’s services is around 400-500, he said, “but grocery is billions of dollars.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

2017 was the year SpaceX demonstrated their premise of reusability to bring down the cost of satellite launches and space travel, with multiple Falcon rockets and a reused capsule giving repeat performances. Some of the notable things that caught my eye: /p>. Snap Inc became a hardware companySpecs, drones, merchandise.

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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. Their first entrepreneurial breakthrough was selling easter eggs to neighbors in South Africa at a lesser price than the supermarkets. He told us a story about growing up with his brother, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motorsports.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And the giant knows it has no ability to properly respond at the prices and with the innovation that Ring will serve its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $185 billion. Acting leads to a market reaction, which could take you in another direction. You become like that woman in the fable who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. all you do is think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2014

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $12 billion. Acting leads to a market reaction, which could take you in another direction. You become like that woman in the fable who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. all you do is think.

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