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Daily Crunch - Get a look inside the first dedicated tourist spaceship

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 • By Darrell Etherington

We get our first look inside the first suborbital tourist spacecraft, GoPro is looking to change things up by selling lifestyle goods and it’s congressional antitrust-hearing eve. This is your Daily Crunch for July 28, 2020.

The big story: What does a tourist spaceship look like?

Virgin Galactic is probably around two or three more flights from starting to take private, paying astronauts to space, and it has now revealed the interior cabin of the spaceship that those astronauts have paid top dollar to fly aboard. You might think that space itself is the big draw — and it is — but Virgin has clearly pulled out all the stops to ensure that the astronauts who are spending the cash get a premium ride in terms of style and comfort.

Image Credits: Virgin Galactic

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The tech giants

Tomorrow is the big day for the CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook. Taylor tells you what to expect from this all-star tech executive congressional antitrust field day.

GitHub now offers a public roadmap. Whenever you’re reliant on a larger technology product, knowing what’s coming next in terms of technical developments and new features for said technology can be massively helpful — especially at enterprise scale. GitHub is going to make public what’s coming next to try to help people out with that.

Twitter puts the screws to Donald Trump Jr.’s Twitter account. Because he was being a COVIDiot and publishing misinformation, which is explicitly against their rules. Sorry Junior.

GoPro now sells bags. Like lifestyle bags, not bags to hold your action cameras. Well I guess they can still hold your action cameras. You know what I mean.

Image Credits: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images

Startups, funding and venture capital

YC Demo Day will be both virtual and live-streamed. It was virtual last time, but not live, with all pitches pre-recorded. Feedback YC received from founders was that the pressure of a live demo day was good for bonding, and investors preferred it as well, so this time it’s a Zoom-streamed affair.

Paragon lands $2.5 million seed round for low-code integration platform. App integrations are complex, but Paragon is still managing to handle it in the very en-vogue low-code manner that people love so much these days.

Nanox raises $59 million for medical scanning tech. What comes after x-rays? Nanox is betting on its full body scanners, which have earned it another $59 million on the heels of $51 million previously raised for this round.

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Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch

How to get acquired with Priti Youssef Choksi. A good exit is hard to find, but Norwest Venture Partners’ Choksi has seen a few — including during corporate development roles at both Google and Facebook. She provided founder-centric advice on how to secure a good acquisition for your company at our Early Stage event.

Garry Tan on how founders screw up their own companies. Also at Early Stage, Tan shared three ways that founders most often bungle their own startups — pitfalls that once you know about them, should be avoidable.

What’s up with the Rackspace and BigCommerce IPO prices? Alex digs into why the companies appear undervalued in terms of overall valuation after their public debuts, given their revenue numbers.

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