socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It's a story you hear too many times: a venture or angel funded firm just can't figure out its business, runs low on cash, can't get another round of funding, and soon all that's left is a few chairs and servers. How did you end up at Unified Dispatch? We ended up buying Unified Dispatch Inc.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Joe Platnick of the Pasadena Angels , who delves into some of the criteria for selecting an angel group. 8. Are they respectful of entrepreneurs. 9. Do they help entrepreneurs, regardless of whether or not they invest. 7. Advice.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. The Angel funding process can be arduous. The conflict is built in. So what do we do?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. The firm so far has signed up a number of restaurants in the Pasadena area. How do users do that? READ MORE>>.

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Steve Reich

JANUARY 20, 2013

.” But inevitably, it happens to some startups. The one group of investors you can count on to support you in a crisis are your Angels, and I saw two examples over the Holidays. Even in a crisis, Angels typically rally around their companies, rather than using the maximum leverage to drive harder deal terms.

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Steve Reich

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

We never did really figure out how to monetize the app itself, but the team kept up a weekly email dialogue with active users. No great fortunes were established, but it was nevertheless a substantial success, given the 95% failure rate for startups. For entrepreneurs? Is a team who takes a moderate outcome giving up too early?

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Steve Reich

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

was launched with nearly $2mm in Angel funding from the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. We had an advocate in each Angel group who aggressively lead the effort. Someone has to do the heavy lifting of advocating, organizing, and building enthusiasm about your company within their Angel group.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

How many Angels do you want in your cap table? Mark Suster wrote a great piece in July giving his answer: “If all else fails, angel-load away! If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. How are you funded and backed?

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

Originally funded by the Pasadena Angels , the Company is now backed by “A” list VCs, and growing phenomenally, with tens of thousands of customers. The Founders at Swing by Swing keep up a running email dialogue with their users and circulate the key conversations to their whole team. Pick up the phone.

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