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Tech Coast Angels Looks To Shorten Funding Cycle

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The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization.

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TCA Gets First Close On Angel Fund

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The Tech Coast Angels announced this morning that it has had a first close on its Angel Capital Entrepreneurial (ACE) Fund 1, the firm's new early-stage investment fund. The angel group said that the first investment from the fund was in Vokle, an online event broadcasting service. fundraising.

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Insights and Opinions: Top 10 Attributes of Successful VC Investments

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Contrary to the common belief that Southern California "should be an easy place to raise money" with all of its' entertainment and real estate wealth, it is a very difficult place to raise Venture Capital for technology start-ups. So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today?

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Angel Investing - Demystified

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is an increasingly important component of the start-up capital structure. See [link] (more).

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Freebinar Looks To Fill Webcasting Hole Left By DimDim

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Bolstering Freebinar's efforts is new funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Freebinar told socalTECH today that it is looking to help users of Dimdim, which was just acquired by Salesforce.com and stopped allowing new user signups this week. READ MORE>>.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

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Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded.

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Insights: Turning Soft on Social Entrepreneurship

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In our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Frank Peters , angel investor and podcaster at the Frank Peters Show , who talks about how he's suddenly taking another look at social entrepreneurship and ventures in a new light. That's what I thought 3 years ago when the Tech Coast Angels screened BikeStation.