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

socalTECH

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? 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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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Ian Harris, VP of local Cleantech incubator believes ‘Cleantech’ is now more a political term than a technological definition.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. Alex Benzer: We call it Silverlake HQ.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. Price: $25 (Early Bird).

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store.