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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. in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M.

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Angel Funding Advice

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I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. Very few people fund individuals. So I don’t think you can say a group like Tech Coast Angels is good or bad.

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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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George Collado: It''s employee management software. 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.

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Language Weaver's Mark Tapling On Growth, Exits

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It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. The Startups.

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

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Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. The Startups.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

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Critique^It is peer-review without barriers—feedback without managing emails, commentary and document versions. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content. It’s that simple.

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