UpstartToday: Elon Musk's emotional moment; New York's WeWork

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August 9, 2013

The question that brought Elon Musk to the verge of tears Plenty of entrepreneurs say they feel like their companies are their "children," but now we know Elon Musk means it. When he talked about the near-deaths of Tesla and SpaceX in a live video interview, there were tears in his eyes. A look inside NYC's WeWork Labs: Reddit, Estimize, Consumr WeWork Labs is one of the biggest coworking spaces in New York City, with six locations in and around Silicon Alley. Click through for a behind-the-scenes look at the spacious digs of WeWork's SoHo location and some of the companies that have set up shop there. Massive Patch layoffs are coming at AOL; here's how employees should get revenge AOL is poised to shutdown up to 500 of its hyper-local news sites on Patch. Now that AOL is getting out of those markets, maybe laid off Patchers could fill the gap. Marc Jacobs will now beautify you Fashion designer Marc Jacobs—no stranger to diving into verticals beyond fashion—is trying his hand in the beauty industry, with a new effort that includes his own store in New York and his collections featured at Sephora. MORE ON ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATION SLIDESHOW: The most interesting VC investments of the week Nightlife Toolkit unleashes weekend insanity Yahoo paid $751 million for Tumblr's cool factor Get knocked up with big data courtesy of PayPal cofounder $10M reason Robert Plant blitzed social media The haul: An ex-Seamless restaurant rebels, Microsoft adds MakerBot, more shopping news Ask Shama: Are press releases pointless now? Back 9 links: YouTube co-founders take on Vine and Instagram

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