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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. They might be as hard as raising VC.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Venture capital. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage.