Description: Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of the space industry, allowing everyone to understand the role space plays in our lives and how it will continue to transform the world. Over 100 industry experts share insights, presenting a 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, potential, and benefits
Brief description: David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, super angel investor, best selling author and keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He is the New York Times best selling author of both Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business.
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"Space: the next, not final, frontier for venture capital investment. Robert Jacobson's book, Space Is Open for Business, takes us through how some of the leading-edge luminaries think about investing in space. Get on board! It will be quite a ride." TIMOTHY DRAPER FOUNDER, DRAPER FISHER JURVETSON
"Robert eloquently explains why smart, forward-looking investors need to start tracking the space sector for investment and commerce. New doors are opening-fast-and those who act now will build the future. The rest will be left behind in the stardust." ADIL JAFRY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CHANDAH SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
"The creation of commercial business models that operate in the vacuum of space is a necessity to accelerate human exploration of the final frontier. Space Is Open for Business paints the history of the commercial space industry well and outlines with depth the potential it holds for entrepreneurs and humanity alike. Robert Jacobson has created a primer that should inspire entrepreneurs and investors to turn their efforts to creating sustainable businesses in space while unlocking investment returns and huge potential for the human race." COLIN AKE PRINCIPAL, VENTURELAB AT GEORGIA TECH
"Jacobson's captivating read is a testament to the fact that even the most far-out passions truly can become success stories. NewSpace proves over and over that there has never been a better time to take a bold chance on your dreams. This book is a must-read for 'dream big, go big' entrepreneurs-or anyone looking for inspiration." ALLEN CLARY COFOUNDER, TAMPA BAY WAVE; MANAGING DIRECTOR, SIGNAL POINT VENTURES
"Human innovation is reaching a tipping point that is ushering in an era of space travel, extraterrestrial inhabitance, and Moon mining. Space Is Open for Business gives a glimpse into what's to come." SCOTT AMYX CHAIR & MANAGING PARTNER, AMYX VENTURES
"In Space Is Open for Business, Jacobson not only helps us understand how we got to where we are now but clues us into the amazing business potential that space represents today and in the years ahead. I foresee a space gold rush starting in 2020, and the publication of this book will be seen as a starter's gun to that end. Jacobson demonstrates quite clearly why space is both the new frontier and the next hot business for the private sector. This new space race is on!" ALON ROZEN, PH.D. DEAN & PROFESSOR OF INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT, ÉCOLE DES PONTS BUSINESS SCHOOL
"In this comprehensive book, space-investment veteran Robert Jacobson shows how to grow a third of a trillion-dollar industry to a trillion-dollar business in ten years." HOWARD BLOOM AUTHOR OF THE GOD PROBLEM; FOUNDER, THE SPACE DEVELOPMENT STEERING COMMITTEE
"As the founder of a space startup, I appreciated the unique perspectives on the current state of the NewSpace market and its challenges and opportunities moving forward-in particular, the insights into some of the past failures and how to learn from them as we move toward the commercialization of space." KARTIK KUMAR COFOUNDER, SATSEARCH
"This is awesome. Robert's unique access and point of view offer insights that blow my mind." SHAUN ARORA MANAGING DIRECTOR, MILA CAPITAL
"Space truly is open for business! At this moment in time, entrepreneurial energy, renewed governmental commitment, and investor interest are all making space the place to be. Jacobson's must-read book explores the confluence of innovation, inspiration, and investment required to conquer this lucrative new domain." GREG AUTRY DIRECTOR, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT INITIATIVE, MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA