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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. We write and create our own content for the game. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. On the west coast, generally the response is how to improve on an idea.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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

socalTECH

It''s more than showing up every two months and writing that dues check so they can say they''re an angel--it''s having them pitch in and grab the oars, and help move the group forward. To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing.

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CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]

CEO Flow

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Just write me). There’s no cost. Unsure which session to attend?