L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 10, 2019

Quibi unveils pricing details; SpaceX to launch JPL’s atomic clock; Pluto TV launches Latino programming

SpaceX

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2012

Despite the huge interest in Facebook's IPO--the firm priced at $38.00 There have been a few companies rumored to be working on IPOs in Southern California: SpaceX and Hulu have been mentioned as candidates: but it's unclear if the huge reception for Facebook may spur those firms or others to actually file for an IPO. READ MORE>>.

Southern California

L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 5, 2017

Faraday Future plans to race FF 91 to top of Pikes Peak, SpaceX launches Chinese experiment, and Snap Inc. shares fall after price target lowered.

SpaceX

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.

Riot Games

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2020

Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. . You can grab your ticket for a front-row seat to this event for the early-bird price of $349. Grab your tickets at these reduced rates before prices increase.

SpaceX

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 23, 2018

ServiceTitan grabs $62 million in Series C; Elon Musk pulls Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages; and MoviePass drops prices again.

SpaceX

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.

Hawthorne

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The SpaceX Falcon 9 currently has a list price of $62M per launch. NASA is the last user of the Delta II rocket, which it decided to phase out back in 2007 due to rising launch costs when the US military switched over to the Delta 4; articles place the cost of a Delta II launch at over $130M. READ MORE>>.

SpaceX

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The SpaceX Falcon 9 currently has a list price of $62M per launch. NASA is the last user of the Delta II rocket, which it decided to phase out back in 2007 due to rising launch costs when the US military switched over to the Delta 4; articles place the cost of a Delta II launch at over $130M. READ MORE>>.

SpaceX

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. They will then line up with you, per Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

Startup

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.

Technical Review

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.

Invest

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. Source: gumroad.com Gumroad really started to take off in 2023, smashing revenue records for three months straight, a feat that was attributed to a price hike it carried out at the start of the year.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

If Bird has thousands of scooters in a neighborhood (and if it can acquire these scooters at cheaper prices due to scale advantages) then it’s significantly more difficult for new entrants to launch without serious capital and it’s hard to get serious capital from investors who perceive you’re late to the game.

Santa Monica

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Elon Musk is doing both of these, first by expanding his Tesla electric vehicle initiatives beyond cars, into self-driving taxis and trucks, and secondly by entering new domains of transportation with SpaceX and Hyperloop.

Examples

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.

Conference

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2018

Elon Musk, for example, had no experience or training as a rocket scientist when he came up with the idea of reusing rockets, and the innovative idea for SpaceX. Everyone wants to fit in, but most of us have felt a sense of being an outsider, which needs to be nurtured rather than crushed.

Training

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. 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. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

Venture Capital

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. SpaceX plans to build Starships at a furious clip. SpaceX is serious about iteration – its strategy of building (and failing – and learning from its failures) fast is in full effect for its Starship development program.

SpaceX

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.

USC

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Meanwhile, we saw significant progress in SpaceX’s commercial crew program, and plenty of activity among startups big and small. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon arrives in Florida. The spacecraft that SpaceX will use to fly astronauts for the first time is now in Florida, at its launch site for final preparations before it takes off.

SpaceX

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

SpaceX launches online rocket rideshare booking tool. SpaceX has launched a new online booking portal for its rideshare rocket service, which actually lets anyone with a credit card book a rocket launch, starting at $1 million with a $5,000 down-payment. Inside Astra’s unique new launch offering.

SpaceX

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $185 billion. You become like that woman in the fable who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Some of these may be visionaries, but none are real entrepreneurs - yet. In other words, if all you ever do is think.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2014

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $12 billion. You become like that woman in the fable who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Some of these may be visionaries, but none are real entrepreneurs - yet. In other words, if all you ever do is think.

Startup