In this column I am going to take a slightly different viewpoint than my last two. In the last two columns I provide what I think is sound advice to founders of small businesses on how to deal with customers. In the last column I specifically singled out government customers.

This is another of my columns under the general heading of “advice to founders.” It’s kind of an extension of the last one, but this time dealing with how to deal with the government.

This is one of what I hope will be a series of columns under the general heading of “Advice to Founders.” These are topics that I find I come back to often in my conversations with founders of small businesses and which I think are things that anyone who has, or is thinking about, founding a business should know.

In my work with companies in the space sector I am increasingly seeing what I think is a serious issue that is impairing the growth of companies that seem to have all the factors in place to be successful.

Just a short announcement today to wrap up season four of Terranauts – and yes, there will be a season five. 

In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we pause our ongoing history of NASA’s early spaceflight program and for the next two episodes focus on an important but largely unknown Canadian historical event, one that could have devastated the space program.

This the sixth and final installment of the this series on the New Space Revolution.  If you have not read the previous articles you may want to do that as they will provide useful context for this one.  Over the course of this series I have talked about how the advent of new space companies based on a new business model that was made possible …

In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we talk about NASA’s astronauts early tragedy.

This is the fifth article in a six part series on the state (and fate) of the New Space sector.  If you have not read the other articles in the series, you might want to do that since much of this article depends on the arguments made there. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, …

In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we take a little bit more time to examine the events of Gemini VIII and what NASA learned from that experience.