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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? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group?

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. What is Episona?

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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. We caught up with Jason Lehmbeck , one of the firm's founders, to hear more about the company. Talk a bit about your funding round?

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We've had to turn away people.

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The Odd Couple: Angels and Accelerators

Steve Reich

As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. The Angel funding process can be arduous. The entrepreneurs in startups are trained to go fast and run lean. And, yes, I know newly minted Facebook and Zynga millionaires are sprinkling money around, but they can’t fund everything. So what do we do?

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The Secret to Success with Angel Investors

Steve Reich

was launched with nearly $2mm in Angel funding from the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. Clearly you start with the officers and directors of your Angel group, but also pay attention to who speaks up in meetings. LeisureLink, Inc., How did we do it? How do you find that Angel partner?