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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. Mobile Web America, Inc. We write and create our own content for the game. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. The way I think about branding anything is simple: Define the Attributes You Want to Project. And do so in real life, too. downtown LA].

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Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay

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It''s more than showing up every two months and writing that dues check so they can say they''re an angel--it''s having them pitch in and grab the oars, and help move the group forward. To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I can tell you we did four investments in Southern California last year, and in none of those deals did we run into super angels, even though we are writing checks as small as $50,000. What areas you personally are looking at right now? Fouad ElNaggar: It's pretty broad.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 Stuff you may not know about LA? What Do We See From the Road Ahead?

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Angel Funding Advice

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The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people. At what value?

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