The 2010 Time Machine

A look back.  2010 has been a busy year.  Here are a few posts I especially enjoyed writing, organized for easy reference. 

Sections included:
(1) Interviews
(2) Business Cases
(3) Education
(4) MBA Mondays. 

MBA Mondays is not my work, but a great summary of the basics of starting a business (newspace or terrestrial) broken into bight size pieces and provided by a venture capitalist in New York. 

I know anyone can google these topics, but to hear business essentials presented from a VC and to read the personal stories and input from those commenting - well worth your time if you are at all interested in starting your own company.

Interviews:

• Alan Wasser: Space Property Rights
• Craig Clark, CEO of Clyde Space: E-Commerce for Satellites
• José Mariano Lopez Urdiales, CEO of bloon: High-Altitude Balloons as an alternative to Suborbital rides
• Al Globus: Infrared Space Based Solar Power
• Jonathan Card: Founder of the NewSpace Business Group
• Brian Shiro, CEO of Astronauts 4Hire: Commercial Astronaut Services

Business Cases:

• Suborbital Cargo Agent: Integrator Service for Suborbital (and NanoSat) Launches.  I believe Andrews Space's Spaceflight Services implemented this business case during 2010 incorporating Suborbital, orbital, GTO, and Lunar all into one services business.
• New Space Credit Union: Use credit union profits to fund a series of space prizes
• Space App Store: Apple’s App Store for Space Vehicles.  While focusing primarily on their own components, Europe's Clyde Space is now implementing many of the online elements of the business case. 
• Lunar Base assuming Lunar Property Rights
• Selling Gravity to workers on Space Stations
• Servicing Iridium's LEO Satellite Constellation through use of a Tug 
• LEO-to-GEO Tug: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 

Education:

• The Rocket Equation – With Interactive Spreadsheet
• The Basics of Angel Financing 

MBA Mondays (Listed in order posted):

• How To Calculate A Return On Investment
• The Present Value Of Future Cash Flows
• The Time Value Of Money
• Compounding Interest
• Corporate Entities
• Piercing The Corporate Veil
• Accounting
• The Profit and Loss Statement
• The Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow
• Analyzing Financial Statements
• Key Business Metrics
• Price: Why Lower Isn't Always Better
• Projections, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Scenarios
• Budgeting In A Small Early Stage Company
• Budgeting In A Growing Company
• Budgeting In A Large Company
• Forecasting
• Risk And Return
• Diversification
• Hedging
• Currency Risk In A Business
• Purchasing Power Parity
• Opportunity Costs
• Sunk Costs
• Off Balance Sheet Liabilities
• Enterprise Value and Market Value
• Bookings vs Revenues vs Collections
• Commission Plans
• What A CEO Does
• What A CEO Does (continued)
• Outsourcing
• Outsourcing vs Offshoring
• Employee Equity
• Employee Equity: Dilution
• Employee Equity: Appreciation
• Employee Equity: Options
• Employee Equity: The Liquidation Overhang
• Employee Equity: The Option Strike Price
• Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs
• Employee Equity: Vesting
• Employee Equity: How Much?
• Acquisition Finance
• M&A Fundamentals
• Buying and Selling Assets
• Selling your Company

Here's to a New Year filled with hardwork worth doing.  And to the entrepreneurs who are living what I am only talking about.  Cheers!