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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Evite Redesigns Site

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Los Angeles-based Evite , the online invitations business which is a unit of IAC, said today that it has launched an extensive redesign of the firm's website. Evite was originally launched in Silicon Valley in 1998, and was acquired by IAC in 2001 and moved to Los Angeles. designs to the online invitations space. READ MORE>>.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The problem with the TechCrunch bounce was that it often led the the TechCrunch free fall, as in your website’s precipitous decline in traffic and your products fall in users as that same 60-70,000 rushed to try the next product.

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A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles

Jason Nazar

Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? They build obsessively user focused products, do a fantastic job at virally driving a ton of traffic, but usually have their head up their ass when it comes to making money. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 What's your company doing?

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

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One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. Edward Park: Our company, Rnddr Labs, is trying to create frictionless merch tools and products. What is Insteegram about?

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

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John Wander – Co founder & CEO – angel investor, team member, advisor, and board member to several start ups. Giantstep Angel Network, Ingrooves, Filtrbox (acquired by Jive ), TrueChoice Solutions). In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0,