Sunil Nagaraj

In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about nebulas, about black holes. So for as long as I can remember, I've been just looking up at the stars and wondering what's out there and even what may be looking back at us.

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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.

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I would love to go to space, take a view of the Earth, see the stars without the mask or the atmosphere. I think that would be an absolutely amazing experience.

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Even when I was five years old, I was obsessed with space.

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The trail of dating sites relying heavily on Facebook is littered with failures.

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I wouldn't mind telling my five good friends that I'm dating, but I don't want my loose connections to know.

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It costs about as much to launch an app as it does to make and launch a satellite.

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My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.

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I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.

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We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.

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2017 will be the year that NewSpace startups will hit their stride.

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Space investing looks a lot like tech investing.

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Every entrepreneur must be on Twitter to stay 'plugged in' and to market his/her product.

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I have three focus areas: security, developer tools, and wearable Internet/Internet of Things.

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In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.

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Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.

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Clearly communicate your project: Imagine explaining it to someone not familiar with tech.

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