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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Fans of Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm of Elon Musk, have been riding high this week, with the approval of its NASA launch mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for February. Plus, the firm has also just been tapped by new space startup Stratolaunch--backed by Microsoft billionaire Paul G.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has been selected by the U.S. According to the contract award, SpaceX will receive $130,000 to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 satellite, including launch vehicle production and mission, as well as integration, launch operations and spaceflight worthiness activities. Department of Defense.

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APRIL 29, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has won a big, $82.7M According to the contract award , the contract will include launch vehicle production, mission integration, and launch operations for a GPS III mission. contract from the U.S. Air Force, to launch next generation, GPS III satellites into orbit.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 23, 2017

SpaceX reveals space suit, Snapchat to again produce original scripted shows and Jukin Media to expand studio for original content production.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Elon Musk , the founder of Hawthorne-based SpaceX , in addition to Tesla , appeared to go off script and off the rails on the Tesla earnings call on Wednesday.

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JUNE 28, 2018

the team also includes Sadaf Amouzegar (SpaceX, Caltech) and Nathan Crockett (astrophysicist from the University of Michigan and postdoc, Caltech). Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor maker Microsemi 's chips are being used in the ten Iridium NEXT satellites that were just launched into orbit by SpaceX, according to Microsemi. Microsemi also said its commercial FPGAs are also being used by SpaceX, in its launch vehicle. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

21 in Los Angeles near the serial entrepreneur’s other company SpaceX. Cybertruck unveil on Nov 21 in LA near SpaceX rocket factory. Musk mentioned on Twitter the desire to produce a pickup truck way back in April 2017, before the first Model 3 sedans had been handed over to customers and the CEO had entered production hell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

Elon Musk does this masterfully when he talks about SpaceX going to Mars to assure the future of mankind, and learn about the origins of life. As you create an innovative product, put an equal effort into a compelling vision. Then he commits that he intends to be among the first to move to Mars. The cycle repeats.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Hawthorne-based Space eXploration Technologies (SpaceX), the rocket firm backed by Elon Musk, said Monday that the firm has introduced a new, reusable spacecraft as part of its set of products. SpaceX said the new product is aimed at providing a platform for in-space experimentation, both in a pressurized and unpressurized environment.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

Noone had gone on to take a job at SpaceX and Ellis at Blue Origin, but the two remained in touch and had an idea for building rockets quickly and cheaply — with the vision that they wanted to eventually build these rockets on Mars. If the long-term mission is 3D printing on Mars, we should think of the factory as its own product tool.”

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 24, 2018

Meg Whitman tapped as chief executive of Katzenberg’s WndrCo; Snap’s VP of product to leave company; and SpaceX conducts Falcon Heavy static fire test.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 7, 2019

Ring offers new products; Government shutdown delays SpaceX launch; SoulPancake hires new executives

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Motive provides conversational text messaging used by e-commerce brands to simulate human interaction with customers, with the aim of preventing cart abandonment, promote new sales and product releases, and more. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The company says its product is aimed at mowing large sized commercial lawns, and includes such features as GPS based mapping, computer vision, and machine learning capabilities. According to the company, it is aiming at launching its fully autonomous, electric lawn mower by 2021.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to hold Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in contempt for violating a settlement Musk made last year with the SEC, due to a tweet earlier this month where Musk talked about production numbers for Tesla's vehicles, according to a report on Monday from Bloomberg.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

In the first product you can actually buy from Elon Musk's new tunnel-digging startup, The Boring Company , the company is now selling a hat with the company's name/logo on it. Musk's company--which has been digging tunnels beneath SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne--says the hat costs $20, including shipping and tax.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Elon Musk and Tesla unveiled a new electric vehicle--the Cybertruck --last night in a big event, showing off an highly unusual design, made of the same stainless style used on the SpaceX Starship. No date was given for when the new vehicle might reach production. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Already a major hub for the space and aerospace startup industry, with companies like SpaceX, Relativity Space, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, Phase Four, and others calling Los Angeles home, the new accelerator will provide another booster for LA’s growing startup scene. “The

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Rocket Lab also notes that despite pausing its production of new launch vehicles, it has taken an approach of readying rockets and launch pads ahead of time in order to meet rapid-response requirements from its customers, so it has a stock of vehicles ready even with a production stoppage.

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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 back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds.

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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. Endless West announced this morning that it would shift production away from its distillery to begin making hand sanitizers.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Unlike SpaceX, Rocket Lab is focused solely on the very small nanosatellite market, which does not require a large lifting capability; Rocket Lab said it is focusing on the ability to deliver payloads to orbit every 72 hours. The company said it is ramping its production facility in Huntington Beach to support its commercial ambitions.

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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. Drive productivity and engagement through shared values.

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APRIL 16, 2021

Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX may be the most current example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Cadence Design), and Howard Schultz (Starbucks). It gives a product structure and style, and makes it memorable and unique. Practice learning as an action sport.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The new financing will give Relativity the cash to fully build its “Stargate” factory, a semi-autonomous, full-scale production facility that will house the company’s massive 3-D printers and produce its first rocket, the Terran 1. “We’re really really truly focused on the rockets for now,” says Ellis.

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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. Elon Musk with SpaceX is an example of a new business bringing in technologies from artificial intelligence and solar power to develop smart and reusable rockets to do satellite delivery and space travel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business. Two people with complementary skills are often equal to three.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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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. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The best and most successful entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk , known for PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, routinely work hundred-hour weeks, but never complain about the hours, and don’t even think of their activities as work. If all you see ahead is stress and pain, look for another idea. When engrossed with this idea, the hours fly by.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

According to Tesla, it will use $365M of the low interest loans from the DOE for production engineering and assembly of the company's Model S all-electric family sedan, which the company has said will be built at a yet-to-be-determined Southern California assembly plant. READ MORE>>.

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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. For example, there are many cases where science fiction has been used as a force to drive innovation. Gather more knowledge and consistently apply it.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

For example, if you and your company profess and live a commitment to environmental sustainability, like Patagonia, you will only add products that won’t harm the environment, even if other options appear to be available for a lower cost or quick availability. Courage is being able to live these values, and stick with them.

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JULY 22, 2019

Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are making access to space easy, with private launch capabilities that never existed before. If you look at SpaceX, they recently put 63 satellites into orbit on one rocket, which is a new record. So much of our daily experience is made possible through space infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development. I exhort entrepreneurs to keep it simple, start with a minimum viable product (MVP), and test it out with early customers.

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