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

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In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? He started the group because he wanted to help companies succeed.

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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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It''s too cumbersome, and most of the products are 360 reviews, corporate management type products, which are too expensive. In an industry which has a turnover ratio of about nine months, most companies do these one year reviews which don''t make any sense. Talk about your funding? How did you start the company? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Firms Gets $694M In Q3 2012 Venture Funding

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in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M Finally, the third biggest area for funding was Retailing/Distribution, which had a total of $105.7M was raised.

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Southern California Firms Get $694M In Q3 2012 Venture Funding

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in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M Finally, the third biggest area for funding was Retailing/Distribution, which had a total of $105.7M was raised.

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Interview with Marcus Filipovich, Ocular Data Systems

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Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. How did the company and its technology come about?

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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Where was the technology for this developed? For those who aren't familiar with the process, how is it that you're able to go to market so quickly with something like this without having to deal with a long FDA review? The onus for us is really about the technical validation of the assay. Is it repeatable, is it stable?

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