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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

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As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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

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For Friday''s interview, we spoke with Terry Kay ithe new Chairman of the Pasadena Angels (www.pasadenaangels.com) on the group, and its relevance in the technology funding world today. First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? That''s one thing we''ve talked about with incubators, with valuations.

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Angel Funding Advice

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Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Existing tech or industry executives - Do you have strong relationships in your industry? So I don’t think you can say a group like Tech Coast Angels is good or bad. I get that. That’s OK.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before. We are a technology company, not an ad agency, and we are really just a bunch of nerds who believe we can turn this thing upside down, and let people try those apps out before downloading. It all came back to this idea of on-boarding.

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