About the Book
You no longer need to be a billionaire or rocket scientist to participate in space
Three things you need to know about space:
It is an industry that is notoriously complex--which means it is misunderstood.
It influences and benefits nearly every other industry on the planet.
Accessing space has never been easier.
Space Is Open for Business is an outstanding guidebook for the ultimate space-enabled business plan.
Meticulously researched and edited for the most time-challenged reader, Space Is Open for Business provides a framework for those outside of the industry to understand the critical context that led to the commercial movement known as NewSpace.
This book includes:
Insights from over 100 experts, including industry leaders and investors, into the economics and strategies for leading the trillion-dollar race to commercialize space.
Breakdown of the space economy verticals.
How space, arts, and culture are deeply linked.
A 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, benefits on Earth, and more.
Space investor and entrepreneur Robert C. Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of this spectacular industry, allowing everyone on Earth to understand the integral role space plays in our lives, how it will continue to transform the world, and how you could participate.
In the vein of Mary Roach, Jacobson makes a complex topic easily understandable and accessible for every reader.
Space as an industry offers a triple bottom line: Return on Investment, Innovation, and Inspiration.
INVESTMENT
Imagine if you had the opportunity to invest in Apple when it was new and undiscovered--would you do it?
Space is a culmination of many disciplines, and it works in tandem with various industries. The sector's growth depends on merging different fields with cutting-edge technologies, fantastical ideas with logical applications.
Investors, including John Doerr, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, RRE, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, and Andreesen Horowitz, took notice and are backing companies in this growing sector.
INNOVATION
Space is the sector with the most unlimited potential for progress and collaboration. When space advances, other industries benefit. When other industries advance, space benefits as well--innovations and progress multiply.
From Hollywood to navigation, communications devices to streaming services, medical discoveries to robotics, agriculture to energy, all of these industries affect space and are affected by space--much like bees pollinating flowers.
Jacobson proposes that space startups can borrow tactics and strategies developed by other entrepreneurs and thought leaders--such as Peter Thiel, Eric Ries, and Ben Horowitz--to improve space startups' probability for success.
INSPIRATION
What do Jules Verne, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Jerry Pournelle, Andy Weir, and David Bowie have in common?
For centuries, artists and creators have helped inspire real space efforts. They merged space with arts and entertainment to construct visions and stories that helped us articulate, amplify, and imagine what is possible--ultimately influencing and shaping reality, from Moon missions to mobile phones.
About the Author :
Robert C. Jacobson is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, industry leader, and mentor with over ten years of experience advising private investors in the potential of the space sector. His professional career has been characterized by an innate talent for early recognition of transformative industry developments, such as emerging sectors, new business trends and cycles, and enabling technologies. Robert was one of the earliest members and a principal with Space Angels (formerly Space Angels Network), the first space-focused angel group in the world and the leading source of capital for aerospace startups. At Space Angels, his extensive network in the space industry was instrumental in developing stra- tegic partnerships with other space organizations and recruiting early members for the group. He later cofounded The Aerospace & Defense Forum, a global aerospace and defense leadership community that currently consists of over 2,000 industry senior executives and professionals. In 2017, Robert became one of the first team members of Arch Mission Foundation and was subsequently part of the three successful space missions: the Solar Library payload in Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, now orbiting the Sun (via SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, 2018); the LEO Library, with the first English copy of Wikipedia in low Earth orbit (via a SpaceChain CubeSat, 2018); and the Lunar Library, a thirty-million-page archive on the Moon (via SpaceIL's Beresheet Moon lander, 2019). Today, Robert serves as the founder and chief executive officer of Space Advisors, a financial and strategic consulting firm that mentors startups and advises private investors in the potential of the space program for the benefit of humanity. Vanessa is the editor of SOVO // magazine. She is also a writer and art board member. Since October 2018, she has been the editor and researcher for an upcoming novel about the commercial space sector. 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.
